"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."

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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."

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"Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn't have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!"

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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

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"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."

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"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."

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"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."

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"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."

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"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."

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"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."

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"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."

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