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“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.”

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Book:Inspiring Thoughts

Source: Inspiring Thoughts

“The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.”

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Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

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Author:H. L. Mencken

“The shallow, as intimated, consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.”

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Author:Louisa May Alcott

“A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“Who then is free? the wise man who is lord over himself; Whom neither poverty nor death, nor chains alarm; strong to withstand his passions and despise honors, and who is completely finished and rounded off in himself.”

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Author:Horace

“He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.”

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Author:Samuel Adams

“Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.”

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Author:Horace

“In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not on falsehood; on justice, not on injustice; on public tranquility, not on violence; on freedom, not on enslavement.”

“The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them.”

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!”

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Author:Thomas Carlyle