"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
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"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
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"Now: heaven knows, anything goes."
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"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."
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"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."
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"To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves."
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"What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
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"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?"
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"Being an Indian means living with the land. And the only way we'll be able to do that is to gain our freedom."
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"To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]"
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"Freedom is the only law which genius knows."
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"Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and, on for the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man."
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"We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom. And now, as in no other age, we seek it because we have been warned, by the power of modern weapons, that peace may be the only climate possible for human life itself."
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"Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights."
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"Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer."
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"Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free."
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"I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the Declaration of Independence that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in the Declaration of Independence, I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it."
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."
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"The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul."
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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."
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