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" Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas. "

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" A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. "

" It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you. "

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" Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. "

" Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. "

" Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world. "

" Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them. "

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" It is necessary to make virtue fashionable. "

" Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. "

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" The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well. "

" Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. "

" The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you. "

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" A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. "

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