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Most people want security in this world, not liberty. - H.L. Menck

Most people want security in this world, not liberty. – H.L. Mencken, Minority Report, 1956

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Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society. – John Ralston Saul

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Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches. – Will Rogers

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The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I cant have those things then I feel like a caged animal and Id rather not be in a cage. Id rather be dead. And its real simple. And I think its not that uncommon. – Angelina Jolie

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Our Founders warned against this. They said dont… that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there. – Sharron Angle

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