"The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State."
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"Are you really going to let a toilet stand in the way of you and financial independence?"
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"If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical."
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"But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself."
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"The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor."
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"That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges."
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"There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism."
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"I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence."
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"Anything that's popular is a rear-view image."
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"One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance."
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"When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."
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"What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?"
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"In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it."
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"Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure."
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"Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence"
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"Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort."
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"We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure."
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"Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence."
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"Therefore, be islands unto yourselves. Be your own refuge. Have recourse to none else for refuge. Hold fast to the Dharma as a refuge. Resort to no other refuge. Whosoever, either now or after I am gone, shall be islands unto themselves, shall seek no eternal refuge, it is they, among my disciples who shall reach the very topmost height! But they must be keen to progress."
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