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"The word 'slavery' and 'right' are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish."
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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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"Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it."
"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
"More than half of my life is past, I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues."
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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