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“Spiritual experiences and their results are not meant for the individual. They are for the evolution of the whole race.”

Whole Spiritual Individual Freedom Results Race Evolution Spiritual Experience

Author:Andrew Cohen

“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.”

Source: Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness

“Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.”

“Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness.”

Freedom Results Democracy Honesty Weakness Hypocrisy

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Western civilization is based upon the libertarian principle, and all its achievements are the results of the action of free men.”

Men Action Freedom Results Principles Civilization Achievement Western Libertarian Free Man Western Civilization

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“Our faith in freedom does not rest on the foreseeable results in particular circumstances, but on the belief that it will, on balance, release more forces for the good than for the bad ... Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.”

Doe Belief Force Freedom Results Known Effects Particular Balance Circumstances Release Granted Beneficial

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.”

Wisdom Lasts Freedom Results Existence Conquer Persistence Firm Stamps

Book:Faust

Source: Faust

“[In the case of research director, Willis R. Whitney, whose style was to give talented investigators as much freedom as possible, you may define "serendipity" as] the art of profiting from unexpected occurrences. When you do things in that way you get unexpected results. Then you do something else and you get unexpected results in another line, and you do that on a third line and then all of a sudden you see that one of these lines has something to do with the other. Then you make a discovery that you never could have made by going on a direct road.”

Way Giving May Art Made Science Lines Freedom Results Cases Style Directors Research Discovery Direct Thirds Unexpected Serendipity Investigators Whitney

Author:Irving Langmuir

“In our desire to have government become our benefactor and sustainer, we have allowed it to become our taskmaster and overlord. As a result, we have become little more than well-fed, well-entertained slaves to the state. Freedom, as envisioned by our forefathers, is gone.”

Wells Littles States Government Desire Freedom Results Liberty Gone Slave Libertarian Feds Libertarianism Forefathers Benefactors

Author:Chuck Baldwin

“In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its fruits; that industry from which property results, and that enjoyment which consists not merely in its immediate use, but in its posthumous destination to objects of choice, and of kindred affection. In a just and free government, therefore, the rights both of property and of persons ought to be effectually guarded.”

“It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.”

Facts Freedom Simple Results Effects Blessing Enlightenment Prejudice Constant Tolerance Statements Boredom Repetition Liberating

Author:Quentin Crisp