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"For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility."
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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."
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"For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Liberty is the right to do what I like; license, the right to do what you like."
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"I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone."
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"Man was born free and everywhere he is in shackles."
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"Legalize the right to choose wrong.Legalize individual liberty."
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"You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other."
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"When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse."
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"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
"The European model is, first, a social and economic system founded on the role of the market, for no computer in the world can process information better than the market."
Computer
"The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws."
Job
"These days there are not enough of such intermediary groups, between the state and the individual, with the result that political leaders are often unduly guided by opinion polls."
Leadership
"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
"I cannot resign myself to the decline of Europe, and of France."
Nation
"My problem is how to find the best way of being useful."
Being
"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
"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 European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility."
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