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Quote by Curtis Billings
A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since t

A statistician made a few calculations and discovered that since the birth of our nation more lives had been lost in celebrating independence than in winning it. – Curtis Billings

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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas Macaulay

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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. – Abraham Lincoln

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Liberty and Equality," 1

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