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"Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of expression and research, the personal power that entitles every Arab citizen to feel that he or she is in fact a citizen, and not just a sheep in some great shepherd's flock."
"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get."
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
"How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?"
"Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you."
"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress."
"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."
"If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world."
"The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
"Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep."
"Freedom is for everyone, whatever lifestyle they choose, as long as it's peaceful and honest"
"People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
"We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees."
"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
"The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon."
"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
"If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
