"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
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"Pain is inevitable as long as you are identified with your mind."
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"Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts."
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"The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day."
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"I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind."
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"The supreme end is the freedom of the spirit."
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"You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path."
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"I'm single because I was born that way."
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"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."
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"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people."
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"The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom."
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"Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
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"Liberties are not given, they are taken."
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"Do not keep silent when your own ideas and values are being attacked. If a dictatorship ever comes to this country, it will be by the fault of those who keep silent. We are still free enough to speak. Do we have time? No one can tell."
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"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own."
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"Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."
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"I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them."
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"If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will. You are a disciple, a follower, of your own deep values and their source. And you have the will, the integrity, to subordinate your feelings, your impulses, your moods to those values."
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"Tie two birds together. They will not be able to fly, even though they now have four wings."
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"It is necessary to stay on the march, to be on the journey, to work for peace wherever we are at all times, because the liberty we cherish, which we would share with the world, demands eternal vigilance."
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