"Where there is much freedom there is much error."
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"The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it."
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"The school system is the homogenizing hopper into which we toss our integral tots for processing."
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"When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city..."
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"Secure property in hand leads to peace in mind."
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"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought."
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"Freedom begins between the ears."
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"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."
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"Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint."
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"The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think."
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"... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled."
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"Please use your freedom to promote ours."
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"The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing."
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"It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains."
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"A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence to written law would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying them with us; thus absurdly sacrificing the end to the means."
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"Laws are like sausages. You sleep far better the less you know about how they are made."
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"She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom."
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"The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom."
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"Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of prejudice? What is it to be born free and equal, and not to live? What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?"
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"Freedom exists only with power."
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