"So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers."
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"Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies."
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"I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free."
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"Fear clogs; Faith liberates."
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"Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it."
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"Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
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"This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility."
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"What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?"
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"Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone."
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"If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain."
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"Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires."
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"Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it."
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"Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely."
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"In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations."
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"Freedom is like a man who kills himself Each night, an incessant butcher, whose knife Grows sharp in blood."
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"Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower."
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"Alone, no one wins freedom."
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"He is free knows how to keep in his own hands the power to decide."
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"We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?"
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"Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."
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