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	Lord Acton	At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities....
	John Adams	Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.
	John Adams	It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
	John Adams	It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.
	Samuel Adams	Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.
	Aeschylus	Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
	Publius Terentius Afer	Fortune helps the brave.
	Publius Terentius Afer	I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
	J. Tucker Alford	It is precisely this clinging to victimhood as a means of demonstrating one’s virtue and advancing one’s well-being that has led us into a society in which welfare and quotas are “civil rights,” government handouts are “entitlements,” and payment to girls having babies out of wedlock are “compassionate,” while hard-working, ambitious people are “greedy,” punishment of crime is “oppression,” and an independent thinker who stands for courage and self-reliance is dismissed as an “Uncle Tom.”
	Florence Ellinwood Allen	Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
	Lisa Alther	I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
	Henri Frederic Amiel	Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means to push back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.
	Walter Truett Anderson	Our lives improve only when we take chances -- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
	Jann Arden	The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.
	Aristotle	Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil -- and if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.
	Richard Bach	There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.
	Sir Francis Bacon	The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
	Michael Badnarik	How bad do things have to get before you do something? Do they have to take away all your property? Do they have to license every activity that you want to engage in? Do they have to start throwing you on cattle cars before you say “now wait a minute, I don’t think this is a good idea.” How long is it going to be before you finally resist and say “No, I will not comply. Period!” Ask yourself now because sooner or later you are going to come to that line, and when they cross it, you’re going to say well now cross this line; ok now cross that line; ok now cross this line. Pretty soon you’re in a corner. Sooner or later you’ve got to stand your ground whether anybody else does or not. That is what liberty is all about.
	Tallulah Bankhead	I'm a foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
	Cesare Beccaria	The laws of this nature are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator? and does it not subject the innocent to all the disagreeable circumstances that should only fall on the guilty? It certainly makes the situation of the assaulted worse, and of the assailants better, and rather encourages than prevents murder, as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons.
	Cesare Beccaria	False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction.
	Cesare Beccaria	A principal source of errors and injustice are false ideas of utility. For example: that legislator has false ideas of utility who considers particular more than general conveniencies, who had rather command the sentiments of mankind than excite them, who dares say to reason, 'Be thou a slave;' who would sacrifice a thousand real advantages to the fear of an imaginary or trifling inconvenience; who would deprive men of the use of fire for fear of their being burnt, and of water for fear of their being drowned; and who knows of no means of preventing evil but by destroying it.
	Cesare Beccaria	False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty... and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. They ought to be designated as laws not preventive but fearful of crimes, produced by the tumultuous impression of a few isolated facts, and not by thoughtful consideration of the inconveniences and advantages of a universal decree.
	Curtis Bok	In the whole history of law and order, the biggest step was taken by primitive man when...the tribe sat in a circle and allowed only one man to speak at a time. An accused who is shouted down has no rights whatever.
	Napoleon Bonaparte	There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
	Charles Bradlaugh	Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful. Better a thousand fold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people.
	Justice Louis D. Brandeis	Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the State was to make men free to develop their faculties... They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.
	Pearl S. Buck	None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
	Pearl S. Buck	Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
	Buddha	Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
	Buddha	The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
	Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton	There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.
	Edmund Burke	Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
	Robert Burns	Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
	Gaius Julius Caesar	Beware of the leader, who strikes the war drum in order to transfer the citizens into patriotic glow, patriotism is indeed a double-sided sword. It makes the blood so boldly, like it constricts the intellect. And if the striking of the war drum reached a fiebrige height and the blood is cooking and hating, and the intellect is dismissed, the leader doesn't need to reject the citizens rights. The citizens, cought by anxiety and blinded through patriotism, will subordinate all their rights to the leader and this even with happy courage. Why do I know that? I know it, because this is, what I did. And I am Gajus Julius Cäsar.
	Albert Camus	Integrity has no need of rules.
	E. H. Chapin	At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
	Chinese Proverb	If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow.
	Sir Winston Churchill	We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
	Sir Winston Churchill	Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others.
	Sir Winston Churchill	Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.
	Sir Winston Churchill	This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
	Sir Winston Churchill	Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
	Sir Winston Churchill	I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
	Sir Winston Churchill	Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
	Sir Winston Churchill	Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.  But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
	Sir Winston Churchill	Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: 'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.'
	Marcus Tullius Cicero	The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.
	William Kingdon Clifford	There is one thing in the world more wicked than the desire to command, and that is the will to obey.
	Paulo Coelho	The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.
	Communist Rules for Revolution	Communist Rules for Revolution...
	Clarence S. Darrow	The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along.
	Elmer Davis	The Republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it ... This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.
	Elmer Davis	The republic was not established by cowards, and cowards will not preserve it.
	Remy De Gourmont	The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.
	François Duc de La Rochefoucauld	Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
	Rene Descartes	If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
	Fyodor Dostoyevsky	It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word.
	Frederick Douglass	Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.
	Albert Einstein	Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
	Albert Einstein	It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
	Albert Einstein	Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.