"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
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"The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear."
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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
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"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
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"It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
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"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery."
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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"We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it."
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"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."
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"To be true to one's own freedom is, in essence, to honor and respect the freedom of all others."
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"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
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"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."
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"Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin."
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"But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America."
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"Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down."
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"When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state"
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"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."
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