"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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"Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for."
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"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."
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"The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them."
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"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."
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"People demand freedom only when they have no power."
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"Only the ideas that we really live have any value."
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"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."
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"Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few."
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"I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
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"Where liberty is, there is my country."
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"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."
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"it was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom."
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"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible."
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"In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all."
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"A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom."
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"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."
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"Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."
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"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel."
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"In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival."
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