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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

And why do we, who say we oppose tyranny and demand freedom of speech, allow people to go to prison and be vilified, and magazines to be closed down on the spot, for suggesting another version of history.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the things that weigh you down.

The more the state ‘plans’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.