"No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
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"If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper."
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"Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity."
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"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
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"Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more."
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"A slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts."
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"If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile."
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"My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!"
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"News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is advertising."
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"I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important."
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"This country has shed more blood for the freedom of other people than all the other nations in the history of the world combined, and I'm tired of people feeling like they've got to apologize for America."
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"Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves."
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"Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self."
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"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."
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"I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign."
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"The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
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"Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action."
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"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
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"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt."
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"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be"
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