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Do you think I was born to live the life of an oyster, such as I do live here?
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Keep by every means what is your own; do not desire what belongs to others.
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Sometimes we fail to hear or heed these voices of freedom because to us the privilege of our freedom is such an old, old story.
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The silver trump of freedom had roused my soul to eternal wakefulness.
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Liberty, as the inestimable birthright of every man, converted every object into an asserter of this right.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
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The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way
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Between subjection to the will of others and the virtues of self-help and self-government there is a natural incompatibility.
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She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world
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nature makes us free and unrestrained, but we bind and confine immure and force ourselves into small and scanty space
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do, just as one pleases.
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While a slave remains in his fetters, the land must have no rest.
William Lloyd Garrisonverified·No Compromise with Slavery: An Address Delivered in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York·February 14, 1854
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Accordingly a function of free speech under our system of government is to invite dispute.