Quote by Frederic Bastiat
And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster a

And what is liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world? Is it not the union of all liberties – liberty of conscience, of education, of association, of the press, of travel, or labor, or trade? – Frederic Bastiat

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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat

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Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. – Frederic Bastiat

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In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so? – Frederic Bastiat

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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done. – Jean Piaget

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The formal education that I received made little sense to me. – Twyla Tharp

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Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream. – Blanche Lincoln

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The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity. – Bryant McGill

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We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice. – John Dewey

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The back of one door is the face of another. – Proverb

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Pessimism never won any battle. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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