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2010 August 06
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." |
"A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage." |
"For Freedom's battle once begun,
Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,
Though baffled oft is ever won." |
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2010 August 05
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"Better to starve free than be a fat slave." |
"As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would have [the] constriction of our liberties that would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago." |
"He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves besides." |
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2010 August 04
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"A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs." |
"Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints.
It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions,
unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights." |
"O freedom, first delight of human kind!" |
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2010 August 03
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"The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country." |
"By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth
and to publish and teach what one holds to be true.
This right implies also a duty; one must not conceal
any part of what one has recognized to be true." |
"Liberty, without wisdom, is license." |
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2010 August 02
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"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." |
"Be a lamp unto yourself. Work out your liberation with diligence." |
"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth;
not going all the way, and not starting." |
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