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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our pos

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. – Edward Gibbon

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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I started skydiving because I loved the idea of freedom. – Felix Baumgartner

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Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. – Garrett Hardin

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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable. – Alan Greenspan

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