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"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
"Where there is no law there is no freedom."
"Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."
"As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences."
"The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become."
"No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck."
"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
"It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order."
"Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone."
"The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
"Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason."
"The really important kind of freedom involves...being able truly to care about other people..."
"Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind."
"Art is what you can get away with."
"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action."
