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"It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty."
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."
"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."
"Human beings possess the gift of personal freedom and liberty of the mind. We each possess the sovereignty over the body and mind to define ourselves and embrace the values that we wish to exemplify. Personal autonomy enables humans to take independent action and use reason to establish moral values. We are part of nature. Consciousness, human cognition, and awareness of our own mortality allow us to script an independent survival reality and not merely react to environmental forces."
"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."
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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
"Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books."
"Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever."
"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
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