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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
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"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."
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"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."
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"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."
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"The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it."
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"It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity."
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"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."
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"I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone."
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"With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty."
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"Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles."
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"Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty."
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"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."
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"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."
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"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
Liberty
"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
"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
"The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?"
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"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
"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
"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
"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."
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