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Surely the State has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most squeamish among us.
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127
The constitutional right of free expression is powerful medicine in a society as diverse and populous as ours.
128
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.
129
Liberty and law have marched hand in hand.
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Between subjection to the will of others and the virtues of self-help and self-government there is a natural incompatibility.
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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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Only an unmitigated despotism demands that the individual citizen shall obey unconditionally every mandate of persons in authority.
133
The interest of the people is that there should be full liberty of censure on every public officer, and on every public act or measure.
134
The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way
135
To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.
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A Sultan's favourite slave has slaves under her, over whom she tyrannizes; but the desirable thing would be that she should neither have slaves nor be a slave.
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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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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
143
They conferred, as against the Government, the right to be let alone
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the right to be let alone--the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men
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it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government
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To me, a man has no master but God. Man in his authority is a sovereign lord.
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If you want liberty you yourselves must strike the blow. If you must be free you must become so through your own effort, through your own initiative.
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As members of the minority party, we do not have the primary authority to formulate the policy of our government. But we do have the responsibility of rendering constructive criticism, of clarifying issues, of allaying fears by acting as responsible citizens.
Margaret Chase Smithverified·Declaration of Conscience (remarks in the United States Senate)·June 1, 1950
149
The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood nor should he be in danger of losing his reputation or livelihood merely because he happens to know someone who holds unpopular beliefs.
Margaret Chase Smithverified·Declaration of Conscience (remarks in the United States Senate)·June 1, 1950
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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.