"Freedom is the one purport, wisely aimed at, or unwisely, of all man's struggles, toilings and sufferings, in this earth."
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"Freedom, the first-born of science."
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"That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country."
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"Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else."
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"If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom."
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"The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material."
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"There is a wind of nationalism and freedom blowing round the world, and blowing as strongly in Asia as elsewhere."
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"The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our founding documents proclaim to the world that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few. It is the universal right of all God's children."
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"Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers."
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"To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy."
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"A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not."
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"Democracy and violence can ill go together."
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"The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within."
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"There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations."
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"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest."
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"Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion."
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"A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing."
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"Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West."
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"It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance."
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"Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth."
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