"He who regulates everything by laws, is more likely to arouse vices than reform them."
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"The real disturbers of the peace are those who, in a free state, seek to curtail the liberty of judgment which they are unable to tyrannize over."
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"Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."
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"Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once."
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"Liberty is the right not to lie."
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"Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty."
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"The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave."
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"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."
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"Capitalism is our only moral system. All other systems take advantage of man's rights and liberties."
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"Society demands conformity at the expense of individual liberty. Let us be for once a non conformist to be fully alive."
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"Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison."
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"As a reformer the liberal is dissatisfied with things as they are because they violate his exceptionally tender conscience.... Liberalism does not advocate change for its own sake, but for the sake of something better in the direction of what he regards as good, namely, the maximum of liberty consistent with a regard for all men and all interests -- the general happiness based on peace and justice."
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"Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting."
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"Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty."
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"I may err in my measures, but never shall deflect from the intention to fortify the public liberty by every possible means, and to put it out of the power of the few to riot on the labors of the many."
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"Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree."
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"Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth."
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"We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong."
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"The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man."
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"The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty."
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