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- The key to every man is his thought.... He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Circles, Essays: First Series, 1903
- But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty,chapter 3, 1859
- Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Voice of the Master
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Archibald Stuart, December 23, 1791
- It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letters to Benjamin Rush, April 21, 1803
- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
- Liberty also means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Maxims for Revolutionists
- The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.
- Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852), Speech in the Senate, May 27, 1834
- The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Address to the New York Press Club, September 9, 1912
- Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Doctor Zhivago, 1958
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