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"The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself."
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"Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ['If he doesn't play ball ']"
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
"It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is."
"Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!"
"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."
"Is it 'Stockholm syndrome' when your God has never once misguided your steps? I think not! Let the lost ones dart across the darkness, bashing into walls, pretending to love their ways as we delight in obedience to the footsteps of Christ which bring us to freedom. By Faith we wander - not because we are lost, but because we are free."
"Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth."
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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."
"War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands."
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man."
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