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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
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"To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties."
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"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
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"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!"
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"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."
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"Empire and liberty."
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"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave."
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"Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it."
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"I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds."
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"Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered."
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"But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government."
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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
Liberty
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
Power
"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity."
Soul
"Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life."
Life
"A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills."
Work
"One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder."
Strength
"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
Land
"When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings."
Books
"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."
Woman
"If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known."
Earth
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