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• I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
  -- Voltaire (1692-1778) signed 28 Feb. 1778 quoted by Tallentyre...
• The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are
  Initiative, Imagination, Individuality, and Independence -- Edward Rickenbacke...
• You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
  -- Abraham Lincol...
• True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
  -- Voltaire...
• Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards.
  They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty....
• Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed.
  -- Vladimir Ilyich Leni...
• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts. -- Edmund Burke
• It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
  .. When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force....