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“In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.”

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Author:Charles de Gaulle

“Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.”

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Author:Horace Bushnell

“We know that the only alternative to private competition is government monopoly of enterprise. We know that when government monopolizes production, distribution, and employment, it is no longer the servant of men - it is their master. And, therefore, we know that economic liberty and political liberty are inseparable parts of the same ball of wax - that we must keep them both, or we shall lose them both.”

“Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.”

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Book:The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori): An Ethical Poem

Source: The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori): An Ethical Poem

“Sciencehas won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom touse nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.”

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Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him.”

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Book:Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

Source: Martin Luther: Selections From His Writing

“To be perpetually longing and impatiently desirous of anything, so that a man cannot abstain from it, is to lose a man's liberty, and to become a servant of meat and drink, or smoke.”

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Book:The Works of Jeremy Taylor

Source: The Works of Jeremy Taylor

“Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”

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Book:The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

Source: The Conduct of the Understanding: With Sketches of the Lives of Locke and Bacon

“We have become the new american slaves: but there is a revolution coming. It is a revolution of individual liberty. It will free us without violence. It will begin with the self. It will spread to the workplace. It will turn our corporate masters into our servants. It will free us of government's tyranny. The revolution will spread to all corners of the nation, and at last, we shall be free.”

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Author:Gerry Spence