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Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
In wildness is the preservation of the world.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walking (1862)
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Autobiography
The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is besides the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech.: Justice Anthony Kennedy (1936 - ), in 91-155
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.: Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting, Olmstead v. United States, 277 US 479 (1928)
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill I will choose a path that's clear I will choose free will.: RUSH, Free Will

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