"The necessity of pursuing true happiness is the foundation of all liberty- Happiness, in its full extent, is the utmost pleasure we are capable of."
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"There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master."
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"Freedom begins between the ears."
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"the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty."
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"Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
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"The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty."
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"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty."
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"The message for the American youth is that this is a great country and we need to make sure that we pass on a heritage, a lineage and a legacy of American exceptionalism to each and everyone of you so that you can enjoy all the great liberties and freedoms that all the previous generations have had."
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"There's small choice in rotten apples."
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"With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound."
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"The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear."
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"Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed."
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"The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility."
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"Thou shall not steal, even by majority vote."
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"If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one of the simple constitutional provisions, we shall soon be spending many billions of dollars more."
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"He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew."
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"Instead of criticizing Masonry, let us than God for one alter where no man is asked to surrender his liberty of thought and become an indistinguishable atom on a mass of sectarian agglomeration."
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"The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire."
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"The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines."
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"We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation."
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