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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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Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second, more personal and important, from himself. – Edward Gibbon

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

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I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom. – Jean Paul Gaultier

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We know what works. Freedom Works. We know whats right. Freedom is right. – George H. W. Bush

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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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The job of training an Iraqi police force is one of the most important tasks being undertaken in Operation Iraqi Freedom. It is also one of the most difficult. – John Boehner

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A propagandist is a specialist in selling attitudes and opinions. – Hans Speier

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