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Genius is free to announce its inventions and discoveries, and the hand is free to accomplish whatever the head conceives not incompatible with the rights of a fellow-being.
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The existence of such a government as ours for any length of time is a full proof of a general dissemination of knowledge and virtue throughout the whole body of the people.
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Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
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Liberty and law have marched hand in hand.
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One of the benefits of freedom is that under it the ruler can not pass by the people's minds, and amend their affairs for them without amending them.
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The spectacle is exhibited to the world of a government deriving its powers from the consent of the governed and having imparted to it only so much power as is necessary for its successful operation.
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Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
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Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world
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The fundamental principle of scientific pedagogy must be, indeed, the liberty of the pupil;--such liberty as shall permit a development of individual, spontaneous manifestations of the child's nature.
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It is the function of religion not to destroy our nature but to fulfil it.
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We gain our freedom when we attain our truest nature.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
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This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.
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We have it in our power to begin the world over again
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When the world was over run with tyranny the least remove therefrom was a glorious rescue.
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The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining.
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You can do what you want to do, and it is your right and privilege to follow the business or avocation which will be most congenial and pleasant.
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The spirit of liberty is the sovereign balm for every injury which our institutions may receive.