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There are two visions of America. One precedes our founding fathers and finds its roots in the harshness of our puritan past.
It is very suspicious of freedom, uncomfortable with diversity, hostile to science, unfriendly to reason, contemptuous of
personal autonomy. It sees America as a religious nation. It views patriotism as allegiance to God. It secretly adores
coercion and conformity. Despite our constitution, despite the legacy of the Enlightenment, it appeals to millions of
Americans and threatens our freedom.
The other vision finds its roots in the spirit of our founding revolution and in the leaders of this nation who embraced the
age of reason. It loves freedom, encourages diversity, embraces science and affirms the dignity and rights of every
individual. It sees America as a moral nation, neither completely religious nor completely secular. It defines patriotism as
love of country and of the people who make it strong. It defends all citizens against unjust coercion an...
- in freedom
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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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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath
given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and
the punishment of his guilt.
- in freedom
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Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
- in freedom
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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other
forty-nine.
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Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to
be.
- in freedom
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself
survives.
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For what avail the plough or sail,
Or land or life, if freedom fail?
- in freedom
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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation
itself.
- in freedom
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Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set
alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them -- and then, the
opportunity to choose.
- in freedom
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