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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
    tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
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    Eleanor H. Porter
    “It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?”
    ― Eleanor H. Porter
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    Mark Twain
    “Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: animals, dogs, heaven
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    Will Rogers
    “If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
    ― Will Rogers
    tags: afterlife, death, dogs, heaven
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    James Thurber
    “If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. ”
    ― James Thurber
    tags: dogs, humor, thurber
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    Nelson Mandela
    “For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: freedom, liberty
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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: constitution, education, government, liberty, politics
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    James Madison
    “The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
    ― James Madison
    tags: education, freedom, intelligence, knowledge, liberty, media, science
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    Rowan Atkinson
    “As hatred is defined as intense dislike, what is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion, if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of human rights that they deserve to be intensely disliked?”
    ― Rowan Atkinson
    tags: atheism, cults, hatred, human-rights, liberty, logic, morality, prejudice, superstition
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  • #11
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A right delayed is a right denied.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: liberty
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: education, freedom, liberty, wisdom
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    Alexis de Tocqueville
    “When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are carried away and lose all self-restraint . . . . It is not necessary to do violence to such a people in order to strip them of the rights they enjoy; they themselves willingly loosen their hold. . . . they neglect their chief business which is to remain their own masters.”
    ― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America: Volume 2
    tags: liberty, political-economy
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    Larry J. Sabato
    “Every election is determined by the people who show up.”
    ― Larry J. Sabato , Pendulum Swing
    tags: democracy, democracy-fascism, democracy-freedom, democracy-voting, democrats, elections, freedom, liberty, political-science, politics-observation, politics-science, politicsics, republicans, responsibility, vote, voters, voting, voting-rights
    141 likes

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    Thomas Jefferson
    “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: courage, despotism, liberty, life, timid
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    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “Government leaders are amazing. So often it seems they are the last to know what the people want.”
    ― Aung San Suu Kyi
    tags: aung-san-suu-kyi, democracy, fearless, freedom, liberty
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    Edmund Burke
    “But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: freedom, liberty, truth, virtue
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    Malcolm X
    “And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare.”
    ― Malcolm X
    tags: american-dream, deception, democracy, hypocrisy, liberty, oppression
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: individuality, liberalism, liberty, progressive, socialism
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  • #20
    “I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.”
    ― Daniel Radcliffe
    tags: atheism, atheist, freedom, legislation, liberty, politics, religion
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  • #21
    Thomas Jefferson
    “We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
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    Emma Goldman
    “‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.”
    ― Emma Goldman
    tags: civilization, freedom, government, liberty, society, state
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  • #23
    Benjamin Franklin
    “The securest place is a prison cell, but there is no liberty”
    ― Ben Franklin
    tags: freedom, liberty, prison, secure
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  • #24
    Edward Snowden
    “Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.”
    ― Edward Snowden
    tags: chilling-effect, democracy, liberty, nsa, surveillance, surveillance-society
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.”
    ― Thomas Jefferson
    tags: knowledge, liberty, state
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    Salman Rushdie
    “The moment you say that any idea system is sacred, whether it’s a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible."

    [Defend the right to be offended (openDemocracy, 7 February 2005)]”
    ― Salman Rushdie
    tags: censorship, criticism, freedom-of-opinion, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, immunity, liberty, sacrosanct-ideas
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    A.E. Samaan
    “Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century.”
    ― A.E. Samaan
    tags: collectivism, collectivists, individual-liberty, individualism, individuality, libertarian, libertarianism, liberty, marxism, socialism, socialists
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