"Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect."
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"True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need."
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"Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence."
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"No one who lives in error is free."
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"A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable."
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"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."
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"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."
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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting."
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"Freedom - to walk free and own no superior."
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"Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place A limit to the giant's unchained strength, Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?"
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"Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace."
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"He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king."
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"The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."
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"Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God."
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"The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society."
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"Accountability breeds response-ability."
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"It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle."
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"In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved."
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"Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip."
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"Freedom from something is not freedom."
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