"No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will."
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"Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices."
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"Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn."
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"Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day."
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"I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind."
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"Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves."
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"After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you."
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"the touchstone of a free act - from the decision to get out of bed in the morning or take a walk in the afternoon to the highest resolutions by which we bind ourselves for the future - is always that we know that we could also have left undone what we actually did."
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"It is a society of laborers which is about to be liberated from the ferrets of labor, and this society does no longer know of those other higher and more meaningful activities for the sake of which this freedom would deserve to be won."
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"Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music."
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"To give liberty to a slave before he understands its value is, perhaps, rather to impose a penalty than to bestow a blessing."
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"I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do."
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"The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom."
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"What is so beneficial to the people as liberty, which we see not only to be greedily sought after by men, but also by beasts, and to be prepared in all things."
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"It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself."
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"When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside."
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"We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place."
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"Artists have no less talents than ever, their taste, their vision, their sentiment are often interesting; they are mighty in their independence and feeble only in their works."
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"The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them."
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"The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access."
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