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He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!


Emily Dickinson


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The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive.


Thomas Jefferson


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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.


Arthur C. Clarke


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Failure of government programs prompts more determined effort, while the loss of liberty is ignored or rationalized away...whether is it is the war on poverty, drugs, terrorism...or the current Hitler of the day, an appeal to patriotism is used to convince the people that a little sacrifice of liberty, here or there, is a small price to pay...The results, though, are frightening and will soon become even more so.


Ron Paul


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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.


John Stuart Mill


#individuality #liberty #tyranny #liberty

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.


Henry Hazlitt


#productivity #economics

I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.


Charlotte Brontë


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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!


Honore de Balzac


#demands #fate #gifts #heavy #itself

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties - liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade?


Frederic Bastiat


#beat #conscience #education #faster #heart

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.


Ambrose Bierce


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