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Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.
 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

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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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Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Formality is sufficiently revenged upon the world for being so unreasonably laughed at; it is destroyed, it is true, but it hath the spiteful satisfaction of seeing everything destroyed with it.
 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
 E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax