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"What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything around it must also languish; when it sleeps, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?"
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"Freedom is a subset of survival."
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"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"
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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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"Empire and liberty."
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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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"There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing."
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"From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty."
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
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"When liberty returns, I will return."
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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."
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"The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality."
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"The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other."
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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
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"Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners."
Men
"It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too."
Men
"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."
History
"The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people."
Power
"All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it."
War
"There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin."
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"There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it."
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