"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged."
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"One can choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
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"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."
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"Many lovers have been divorced By having what is free enforced."
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"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"
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"Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day."
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"And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay."
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"Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures."
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"You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?"
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"Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks."
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"Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words."
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"No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same species has the right to enjoy it as soon as he is in enjoyment of his reason."
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"... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it."
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"What do we mean by setting a man free? You cannot free a man who dwells in a desert and is an unfeeling brute."
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"The people of my country want the two freedoms that spell security: freedom from want and freedom from fear."
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"Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree."
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"The right to freedom being the gift of God, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave."
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"The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."
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"The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit."
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