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"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
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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."
"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."
"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."
"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."
"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles."
"Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty."
"You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other."
"He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth."
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"Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights."
"Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it."
"We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest."
"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."
"An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think."
"Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."
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