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"There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself."
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"The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman."

"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

"Some of us have to fight. There are great traditions of liberty to defend. I am no partisan man. Where I see the infamy I seek to erase it. Party names mean nothing. The tradition of liberty means all. The common people will let it go, oh yes. They will sell liberty for a quieter life. That is why they must be prodded, prodded-."

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."

"With every drop of my blood I hate and execrate every form of tyranny, every form of slavery. I hate dictation. I love liberty."

"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."

"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it."
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"I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory."

"Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction of what I have forgotten."

"Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue."

"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions."

"No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist."

"Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession."
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