"Would you rather be right or free?"
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"Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance."
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"The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust."
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"Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?"
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"allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves."
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"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."
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"Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven't. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom."
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"What do you suppose will satisfy the soul, except to walk free and own no superior?"
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"The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws."
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"Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection."
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"We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security."
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"Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me."
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"If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own."
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"Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison."
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"To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose."
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"One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at life's banquet."
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"Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves."
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"But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty."
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"May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government."
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"It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father."
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