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We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already. Every idea that we are bound is a delusion.

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There are two kinds of freedom: one is the freedom from something, which is a reaction; and the other is not a reaction, it is "being free."

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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

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I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

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To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]

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Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

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I see neither bravery nor sacrifice in destroying life or property, for offense or defense.

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Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.

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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.

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You call yourself free? I want to hear your ruling thought and not that you have escaped a yoke. Are you such a one as was permitted to escape a yoke? There are some who threw away their ultimate worth when they threw away their servitude. Free from what? What is that to Zarathustra! But your eyes should announce to me brightly: free for what?

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Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

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From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

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I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

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As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.

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