Democracy gives every man the ...

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
 James Russell Lowell

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
 James Russell Lowell
That best academy, a mother's knee.
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A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.
 James Russell Lowell
There is something magnificent in having a country to love.
 James Russell Lowell
A woman's love Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak, And by its weakness overcomes.
 James Russell Lowell