"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."

Force, Liberty

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"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."

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"Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best."

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John Bright, British Politician

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"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."

Felix Frankfurter, American Judge

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"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that."

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"If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun."

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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."

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"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"

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"The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness."

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"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."

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"The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?"

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"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."

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"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings."

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"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"

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"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."

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"To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing."

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"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."

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