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"I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others."
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"Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity. We cannot be free and play the game of life without abiding to the rules, but the rules have to be adapted constantly in line with our experiences and the events we encounter. ['If he doesn't play ball ']"

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."

"It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is."

"Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!"

"No free man needs a God; but was I free?How fully I felt nature glued to meAnd how my childish palate loved the tasteHalf-fish, half-honey, of that golden paste!My picture book was at an early ageThe painted parchment papering our cage:Mauve rings around the moon; blood-orange sun;Twinned Iris; and that rare phenomenonThe iridule - when, beautiful and strange,In a bright sky above a mountain rangeOne opal cloudlet in an oval formReflects the rainbow of a thunderstormWhich in a distant valley has been staged -For we are most artistically caged."

"Is it 'Stockholm syndrome' when your God has never once misguided your steps? I think not! Let the lost ones dart across the darkness, bashing into walls, pretending to love their ways as we delight in obedience to the footsteps of Christ which bring us to freedom. By Faith we wander - not because we are lost, but because we are free."

"Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth."
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."


"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."


"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."


"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."


"Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?"


"When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe."


"All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world."
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