"I want every American to be free to stand up for his rights, even if sometimes he has to sit down for them."
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"When we face our fears, we can find our freedom."
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"I wandered away on a glorious botanical and geological excursion, which has lasted nearly fifty years and is not yet completed, always happy and free, poor and rich, without thought of a diploma or of making a name, urged on and on through endless, inspiring Godful beauty."
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"Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism."
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"A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know."
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"There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it."
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"This moving away from comfort and security, this stepping out into what is unknown, uncharted and shaky - that's called liberation."
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"The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government."
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"Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will."
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"Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them."
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"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
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"To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom."
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"Pharisaism, obtuseness and tyranny reign not only in the homes of merchants and in jails; I see it in science, in literature, and among youth. I consider any emblem or label a prejudice.... My holy of holies is the human body, health, intellect, talent, inspiration, love and the most absolute of freedoms, the freedom from force and falsity in whatever forms they might appear."
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"Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free."
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"The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion."
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"Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."
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"If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never be able to write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn."
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"Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms."
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
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"We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
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