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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."

"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties."

"If we really want liberty - if we really want liberty - then we need to go out and get it, we need to take it, because nobody is going to give it to us. And we need to do it now."

"Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class."

"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"

"Some clever and honourable nations change their regime from authoritarian to a democratic one, and some weak-kneed dictator lover miserable nations do the exact opposite! Don't try to look for a character in a person who gave up his freedom, because he does have none!"

"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."

"Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded, it is a liberty available to anyone."
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"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

"No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish."

"The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable person without one."

"There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves."

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."
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