"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."
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"In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone."
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"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."
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"There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all."
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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
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"How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold."
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"We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others."
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"Freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they have, or the views they express, or the words they speak or write."
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"Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, "What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?" And the other one said, "That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering.""
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"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
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"You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being."
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"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
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"There is nothing so stable as change."
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"It's time to recognise the internet as a basic human right. That means guaranteeing affordable access for all, ensuring internet packets are delivered without commercial or political discrimination, and protecting the privacy and freedom of web users regardless of where they live."
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"Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit."
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"When you recognize that there is a voice in your head that pretends to be you and never stops speaking, you are awakening out of your unconscious identification with the stream of thinking. When you notice that voice, you realize that who you are is not the voice - the thinker - but the one who is aware of it."
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"There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... One person of integrity, can make a difference, a difference of life and death. As long as one dissident is in prison, our freedom will not be true. As long as one child is hungry, our lives will be filled with anguish and shame. What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs."
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"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
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"Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person."
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"Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave."
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