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Quote by Quentin Crisp
It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom. – Quentin Crisp

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The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right. – Quentin Crisp

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The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

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Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose ones government is not necessarily to secure freedom. – Friedrich August von Hayek

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. – D.H. Lawrence

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How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? Were supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties. – Roger Stone

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It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. – Samuel Adams

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