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"I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore."
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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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"Empire and liberty."
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"The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave."
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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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"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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"Life is full of choices. Your choice is your true freedom."
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"My liberty depends on you being free, too."
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"A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself."
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"As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself."
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"The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it."
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"And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain."
Technology
"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
Courage
"A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis."
Nature
"It is the writer's duty to write fiction which promotes virtue, the good, the beautiful, and above all, the true. ... It is the writer's duty to hate injustice, to defy the powerful, and to speak for the voiceless. To be ... the severest critics of our own societies."
Activism
"Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. Therefore the frogs, the toads, keep on singing even though we know, if they don't, that the sound of their uproar must surely be luring all the snakes and ringtail cats and kit foxes and coyotes and great horned owls toward the scene of their happiness."
Joy
"So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally."
Solitude
"Grown men do not need leaders."
Man
"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
Honesty
"Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate."
Literature
"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
Love
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