'If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.' Paul Wellstone

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It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt. (1790): John Philpot Curran:

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men: Voltaire:

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Patriotism does not oblige us to acquiesce in the destruction of liberty. Patriotism obliges us to question it, at least: Wendy Kaminer:

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Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the very same time the beginning of his freedom and development of his reason: Erich Fromm:

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Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom: Marilyn Ferguson: