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I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe. - Albert Einstein Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill

One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

- Ambrose Bierce

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.

- Bulwer-Lytton

Hereditary boundsmen! Know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

- Lord Byron

And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell!

- Thomas Campbell

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

- Lazare Carnot

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod; They have left unstained, what there they found,— Freedom to worship God.

- Felicia D. Hemans

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me; As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

- Julia Ward Howe

I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

- Thomas Jefferson

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

- Bible

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just God cannot long retain it.

- Abraham Lincoln

... That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom.

- Abraham Lincoln

Since the general civilization of mankind I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

- James Madison

The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.

- John Stuart Mill

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held.

- Wordsworth William

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

- Vladimir Lenin

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

- Henry David Thoreau