"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price."
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"The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself."
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"God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason."
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"Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered."
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"Freedom is the right to tell others what they don't want to hear."
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"The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people."
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"True freedom is to have power over oneself for everything."
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"The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves."
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"Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth."
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"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
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"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
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"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once."
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"The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions"
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"And for a disciple thus freed, in whose heart dwells peace, there is nothing to be added to what has been done, and naught more remains for him to do. Just as a rock of one solid mass remains unshaken by the wind, even so, neither forms, nor sounds, nor odors, nor tastes, nor contacts of any kind, neither the desired, nor the undesired, can cause such an one to waver. Steadfast is his mind, gained is deliverance."
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"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle."
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"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose."
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"Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions."
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"...why did Plato say that poets should be chased out of the republic? Precisely because every poet and every artist is an antisocial being. He's not that way because he wants to be; he can't be any other way.... and if he really is an artist it is in his nature not to want to be admitted, because if he is admitted it can only mean he is doing something which is understood, approved, and therefore old hat - worthless. Anything new, anything worth doing, can't be recognized."
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"He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom."
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"It is our responsibility as scientists, knowing the great progress which comes from a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance, the great progress which is the fruit of freedom of thought, to proclaim the value of this freedom; to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed and discussed; and to demand this freedom as our duty to all coming generations."
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