"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
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"Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see."
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"Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free."
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"I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey."
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"Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero."
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"A little caution outflanks a large cavalry."
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"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."
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"[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood."
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"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."
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"The most powerful single force in the world today is neither Communism nor Capitalism, neither the H-bomb nor the guided missile -- it is man's eternal desire to be free and independent."
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"We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some degree, there's a sense of fear in America today, that if you say the wrong thing, what some people will consider what is wrong, if you step out of line, if you dissent, whether you be an entertainer, that somehow and some way this government or the forces to be will come down on you."
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"As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery. We have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger and attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion, a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness."
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"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
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"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
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"No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky."
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"Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am."."
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states."
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"Freedom and slavery are mental states."
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"Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee."
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"In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."
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