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2007 June 29
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"Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others." |
"I have everything, yet have nothing;
and although I possess nothing,
still of nothing am I in want." |
"He who is unable to live in society,
or who has no need because
he is sufficient for himself,
must be either a beast or a god." |
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2007 June 28
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"[A] function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve it's high purpose when it indices a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with things as they are, or even stirs people to anger. Speech is often provocative and challenging. It may strike at prejudices and preconceptions and have profound unsettling effects as it presses for understanding." |
"Because of the diverse conditions of humans,
it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people,
as appropriate and suitable to them,
while the same acts are immoral for others,
as inappropriate to them." |
"Patriotism is your conviction that
this country is superior to all other countries
because you were born in it." |
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2007 June 27
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"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost." |
"In the end it will not matter to us whether we fought with flails or reeds. It will matter to us greatly on what side we fought." |
"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun." |
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2007 June 26
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"Integrity has no need of rules." |
"For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act?" |
"Do what thy manhood bids thee do,
From none but self expect applause:
He noblest lives and noblest dies
Who makes and keeps his self-made laws." |
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2007 June 25
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"By liberty I mean the assurance
that every man shall be protected
in doing what he believes is his duty against
the influence of authority and majorities,
custom and opinion." |
"But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals
which you -- the social reformers -- see, but they may not,
is to deny their human essence,
to treat them as objects without wills of their own,
and therefore to degrade them." |
"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." |
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