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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. – Natan Sharansky

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When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom. – Natan Sharansky

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Fear
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Natan Sharansky
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe. – Natan Sharansky

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Freedom
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The fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything. – Eric Hoffer

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You are the one giving fear a leg to stand on. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy. – Thomas Huxley

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Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. – Gouverneur Morris

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