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“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”

Source: Politics

“By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.”

Art Found Lost Freedom Bounds Captives

Author:Angelus Silesius

“The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.”

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Author:Jimmy Carter

“We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.”

Reason Found Freedom Democracy Convinced Mathematical

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.”

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

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

Firsts Found Left Freedom Holy Worship Soil Worship God Holy Ground

Author:Felicia Hemans

“We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.”

Real Government Found Freedom Liberty Democracy Republican Extremes Moderates Despotism Republican Government

Book:Jeffersonian principles and Hamiltonian principles: extracts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

Source: Jeffersonian principles and Hamiltonian principles: extracts from the writings of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton

“I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.”

Wanted Found Freedom Boundaries

Author:Damien Hirst

“But we know that freedom cannot be served by the devices of the tyrant. As it is an ancient truth that freedom cannot be legislated into existence, so it is no less obvious that freedom cannot be censored into existence. And any who act as if freedoms defenses are to be found in suppression and suspicion and fear confess a doctrine that is alien to America.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”