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As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

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The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

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I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

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We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter.

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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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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

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A definite factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts, more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

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The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

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The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

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The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

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To freemen, threats are impotent.

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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

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The force generated by nonviolence is infinitely greater than the force of all the arms created by man's ingenuity.

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allowing freedom to others brings freedom to ourselves.

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The desire of gold is not for gold. It is not the love of much wheat, and wool and household stuff. It is the means of freedom and benefit.

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It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

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Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

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