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"Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die."
"Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can complel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
"Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem."
"We'd all like to vote for the best man but he's never a candidate."
"Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction."
"Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within."
"No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will."
"Be brave, be bold, be free."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."
"For know that no one is free, except Zeus."
"Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame."
"I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life."
"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it."
"The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same."
"I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty."
"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
"Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'"
