"Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried."
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"The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68"
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"My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful, loving individual, my music sometimes didn't reflect that. But now it's different. My music is reflecting the way I feel."
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"When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much."
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"Only in a police state is the job of a policeman easy."
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"All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangla Desh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them."
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"It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance."
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"Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion."
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"Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?"
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"True liberty acknowledges and defends the equal rights of all men, and all nations."
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"For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the parade."
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"To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony."
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"The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes."
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"There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves."
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"The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism."
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"The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant."
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"The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration."
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"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty"
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"I do not think we should be trying to save our freedom by killing the safeguards that keep our liberties."
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"Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty."
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