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"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
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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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"The problem with a purely collective system is not only that it requires economic growth, and the right sort of demographic trends, but that it prevents people thinking about their futures in a responsible way."
People
"The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people."
Finance
"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
Liberty
"My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it."
Peace
"I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job."
Job
"Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan."
Nation
"Therefore one should speak at the same time of national citizenship and wider European citizenship."
Time
"The countries that share this conception should be able to go further together, without excluding the others, since they can still live in a greater community of exchange and co-operation."
Community
"Even in Britain, the trade unions tell me that employment contracts have less protection than in the past."
Past
"Cinema explains American society. It's like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don't have a place."
Society
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