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"Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."
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"Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ['If he doesn't play ball ']"
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
"It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is."
"Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price."
"Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!"
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"The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."
"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."
"We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated."
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
"A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state."
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
"Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible."
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