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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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"My liberty depends on you being free, too."
"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
"The struggle for freedom is ultimately not resistance to autocrats or oligarchs but resistance to the despotism of public opinion."
"Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded, it is a liberty available to anyone."
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
"What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity."
"It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you."
"The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty."
"Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would have been no French proclamation of The Rights of Man. Without his brilliant negotiation of the Louisiana treaty, there would be no United States of America. Without Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, there would have been no Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, and no basis for the most precious clause of our most prized element of our imperishable Bill of Rights - the First Amendment to the United States Constitution."
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"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
"You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."
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