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"Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."
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"I'd seen entire constellations of possibility I'd never previously been aware of, so blinded had I been by the bright, glaring stars of expectation. Freedom, I was beginning to think, had less to do with where you were, and was more about who you were trying to be."
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"Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
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"If one has never known freedom, it is easy to be blind to the gridirons composing one's cell."
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"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."
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"To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today."
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"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price."
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"The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be."
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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
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"It is not other people who make them to smoke, it is mostly a voluntary decision."
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
Self-Education
"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."
Power
"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
Sympathy
"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."
Work
"The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature."
Nature
"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."
Beginning
"My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India."
Love
"Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking."
Education
"The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise."
Choice
"The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive."
Power
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