"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
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"It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth."
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"My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak... Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted fascism... true democracy cannot be worked by twenty men sitting at the center. It has to be worked from below, by the people of every village."
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"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."
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"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
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"The first maxim of a man who loves liberty, should be never to grant to rulers an atom of power that is not most clearly and indispensably necessary for the safety and well being of society."
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"Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty"
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"Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me."
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
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"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."
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"Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us."
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"Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves."
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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
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"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
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"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
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"Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters."
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"The whole country wants civility. Why don't we have it? It doesn't cost anything. No federal funding, no legislation is involved. One answer is the unwillingness to restrain oneself. Everybody wants other people to be polite to them, but they want the freedom of not having to be polite to others."
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"This I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual."
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"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."
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