"To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne."
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"Illuminated emancipation, freedom, unalloyed and untainted bliss await you, but you have to choose to embark on the Inward Journey to discover it"
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"We can enhance democracy by making it in line with its original vision. Read the dollar bill - E pluribus unum, out of many, one; novus ordo seclorum, a new order of the ages. That's democracy."
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"The sea, as well as the air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation cannot pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage."
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"Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse."
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"Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition."
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"So there's only transcendence in the moment. Nobody can be transcended forever. That's why I say, "Who cares if you're enlightened forever?""
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"I am entirely motivated without anger. The truth sets us free, and freedom acts."
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"Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty."
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"The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave."
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"If the women of the United States, with their free schools and all their enlarged liberties, are not superior to women brought upunder monarchical forms of government, then there is no good in liberty."
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"There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now."
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"As William Penn put it: "Those people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." Remember... that those tyrants are often self-imposed roadblocks of your lower self at work."
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"The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."
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"Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison."
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"Wild liberty develops iron conscience. Want of liberty, by strengthening law and decorum, stupefies conscience."
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"Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him."
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"Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting."
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"Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past."
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"Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will."
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