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"Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have."
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"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."

"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."

"The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with the institution are the only persons who passed censure upon it."

"It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to arbitrariness with impunity."

"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."

"Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles."

"Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty."

"You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other."

"He [Weishaupt] says, no one ever laid a surer foundation for liberty than our grand master, Jesus of Nazareth."
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"Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success."

"I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses."

"The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him."

"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined."
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