Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degenerac

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom. – Charles Horton Cooley

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The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission. – John F. Kennedy

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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. – John Stuart Mill

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