"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
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"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive."
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"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
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"I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe."
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"The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither."
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"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
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"Through discipline comes freedom."
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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
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"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."
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"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
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"We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death."
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"If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are."
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"Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for."
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"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me."
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"Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another."
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"Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground."
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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
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"Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense."
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"At the heart of liberty is the right to define one's own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life."
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"Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind."
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