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No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to flee and fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to
limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.
- in freedom
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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active
and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon
sleeping men.
- in freedom
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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of
mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else.
- in freedom
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I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a
thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter
safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the
policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into
his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound
to become a slave.
- in freedom
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If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home
from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity
forget that ye were our countrymen.
- in freedom
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A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and
shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned -- this is the sum of good government.
- in freedom
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If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.
- in freedom
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We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the
philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
- in freedom
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Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the
fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish,
with the general welfare.
- in freedom
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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the
meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal
element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
- in freedom
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A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.
- in freedom
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The sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any
of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a
civilised community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not
sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it
will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right... The only part of the
conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns
himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
- in freedom
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may
be essential to survival.
- in freedom
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For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and
practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of
'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we sere as willing or unwitting instruments."
- in freedom
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The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies
of free nations and free men.
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Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection
and kindness.
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Freedom lies in being bold.
- in freedom
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Everything can be taken from a man but ... the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of
circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- in freedom
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No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith
lost their liberty in general and became slaves.
- in freedom
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