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

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Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

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There will be no greater burden on our generation than to organize the forces of liberty in our time in order to make our quest ofa new freedom for America.

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

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The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.

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The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.

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Freedom received though the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

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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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Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

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The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

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A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

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And he who has considered all the contrasts on this earth, and is no more disturbed by anything whatever in the world, the Peaceful One, freed from rage, from sorrow, and from longing, he has passed beyond birth and decay.

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Is our day of creative life finished? Does there remain to us only the strange, awful afterwards of the knowledge in dissolution,the African knowledge, but different for us, who are blond and blue-eyed from the north?.... There was another way, the way of freedom. There was the paradisal entry into pure, single beingwhich accepted the obligation of the permanent connection with others, and with the other, submits to the yoke and leash of love, but never forfeits its own proud individual singleness, even while it loves and yields.

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Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

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