The greatest task of ...

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

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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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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
The teacher, whether mother, priest, or schoolmaster, is the real maker of history.
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.