"He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither."
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"If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both."
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"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."
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"The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy."
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"Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous."
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"Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting."
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"...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I replied, "they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it." I, however, didn’t want to be helped, and I hadn’t time to work up interest for something that didn’t interest me."
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"Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom."
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"This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom."
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"The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will."
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"Free speech is the bedrock of liberty and a free society. And yes, it includes the right to blaspheme and offend."
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"The degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity."
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"Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement."
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"My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty."
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"Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold."
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"Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force."
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"The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars."
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"Inequality is the inevitable consequence of liberty."
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"The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals."
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"No people ever yet groaned under the heavy yoke of slavery, but when they deserv'd it. ...The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ...If therefore a people will not be free; if they have not virtue enough to maintain their liberty against a presumptuous invader, they deserve no pity, and are to be treated with contempt and ignominy."
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