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Do not admire your clothes, and then you will not be angry with the thief.
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If I have set my admiration on the poor body, I have given myself up to be a slave; if on my poor possessions, I also make myself a slave.
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Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.
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No man can rob us of our Will--no man can lord it over that!
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When legislation touches freedom of thought and freedom of speech, such a tendency is a formidable enemy of the free spirit.
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The ultimate foundation of a free society is the binding tie of cohesive sentiment.
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In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms
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Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.
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The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history.
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Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.
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To enslave men successfully and safely it is necessary to keep their minds occupied with thoughts and aspirations short of the liberty of which they are deprived.
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I had the grief of neglected chances of escape to brood over
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From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.
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It rekindled the few expiring embers of freedom, and revived within me a sense of my own manhood. It recalled the departed self-confidence, and inspired me again with a determination to be free.
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Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.
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The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.
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To make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one
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You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man
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A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls.
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America has never been united by blood or birth or soil.
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Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian.
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The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.
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The Constitution expresses more than the conviction of the people that democratic processes must be preserved at all costs.
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I would ten thousand times rather that my children should be the half-starved paupers of Ireland than to be the most pampered among the slaves of America
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My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will.