"When we can sit in the face of insanity or dislikes and be free from the need to make it different, then we are free."
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"What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee."
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"The freedom of poetic license."
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"Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude."
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"Freedom is a possession of inestimable value."
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"The sole work and deed of universal freedom is therefore death, a death too which has no inner significance or filling, for what is negated is the empty point of the absolutely free self. It is thus the coldest and meanest of all deaths, with no more significance than cutting off a head of cabbage or swallowing a mouthful of water."
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"Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave."
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"Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free."
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"If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place for their perpetuation."
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"How does the light of a star set out and plunge into black eternity in its immortal course? The star dies, but the light never dies; such also is the cry of freedom."
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"Who would be free themselves must strike the blow. Better even to die free than to live slaves."
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"I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it."
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"Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward."
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"How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude."
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"They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom"
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"you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?"
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"The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor."
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"I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked."
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"The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain."
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"Whilst we strive To live most free, we're caught in our own toils."
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