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http://quotes.prolix.nu/Authors/?John_Steinbeck,_%22East_of_Eden%22

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual
human is the most valuable thing in all the world. And this I would
fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes,
undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or
government which limits or destroys the individual.
- John Steinbeck, "East of Eden"

http://quotes.prolix.nu/Freedom

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with
champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and
very exhausting.
- Albert Camus

A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.
- Bertrand de Jouvenel

Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in
the day to find that all was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are
dangerous men for they may act their dream with open eyes and make it
possible.
- T.E. Lawrence

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought
which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby
can't chew it.
- Mark Twain

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
- John F. Kennedy

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under
robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber
baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point
be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us
without end, for they do so with the approval of their own
conscience.
- C.S. Lewis

The Shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shephard as a liberator, while the wolf denounces
him for the same act as a destroyer of liberty"
- Abraham Lincoln

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