"A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything."
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"Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
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"Where the very safety of the country depends upon the resolution to be taken, no consideration of justice or injustice, humanity or cruelty, nor of glory or of shame, should be allowed to prevail. But putting all other considerations aside, the only question should be: What course will save the life and liberty of the country?"
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"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
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"The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it."
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"I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government"
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"I ask you...to adopt the principles proclaimed by yourselves, by your revolutionary fathers, and by the old bell in Independence Hall."
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"We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
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"There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally."
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"I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny."
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"Without freedom there can be no morality."
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"No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness."
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"It is absolutely vital that we do all we can to allow Americans to practice their religious ways, while simultaneously ensuring that no one's beliefs infringe upon those of others. We should also serve as champions of freedom of religion throughout the world."
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"The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action."
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"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
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"There are no borders in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, because a victory by any country over imperialism is our victory, just as any country's defeat is a defeat for all of us."
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"It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press."
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"I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more."
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"These are the things before me. And as I stand here at the door of glory, I look behind me for the last time. I look upon the history of men, which I have learned from the books, and I wonder. It was a long story, and the spirit which moved it was the spirit of man’s freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom from what? There is nothing to take a man’s freedom away from him, save other men. To be free, a man must be free of his brothers. That is freedom. This and nothing else."
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"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."
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