"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."

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"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."

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"Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that."

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"Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."

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"I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount."

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"There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."

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"America; a country that was discovered is now a discovery and making discoveries! America is America not because of the name America, but because of the great hands and minds who made the name America be America!"

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"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."

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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."

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"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."

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"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."

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"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."

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"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."

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"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."

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"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."

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"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."

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"By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead."

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