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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. – Thomas Jefferson

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. – Thomas Jefferson

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True obedience is true freedom. – Henry Ward Beecher

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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed. – Vicente Fox

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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. – George W. Bush

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Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison. – Sir Edwin Arnold

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