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"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
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"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
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"The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it."
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"Many rabble-rousers for libertarianism, liberty and freedom are unwitting pawns of controllers they have never even considered."
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"If a religion wants you to give up your freedom, just give up that religion! Nothing is holier than your freedom!"
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"It seems that the price of having freedom is having to constantly fight to keep it."
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"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave."
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"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."
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"Empire and liberty."
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"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."
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"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."
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"I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another."
War
"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."
Politics
"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."
Freedom
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Wisdom
"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
Politics
"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."
Education
"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government. Public servants at such a distance, and from under the eye of their constituents, must, from the circumstance of distance, be unable to administer and overlook all the details necessary for the good government of the citizens; and the same circumstance, by rendering detection impossible to their constituents, will invite public agents to corruption, plunder and waste."
Politics
"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression."
Freedom
"All authority belongs to the people."
Politics
"No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place."
Politics
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