The truth will set you free, ...

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
 James A. Garfield

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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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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
 James A. Garfield
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
 James A. Garfield
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
 James A. Garfield
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
 James A. Garfield
The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
 James A. Garfield