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Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
--Thomas Paine

A free man is one who enjoys the use of his reason, and his faculties; who is neither blinded by passion, nor hindered or driven by oppression, nor deceived by erroneous opinions.
--Pierre-Joseph Proudhon


Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.
--John Trapp (the 17th Century Anglican)

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others.

-- Thomas Jefferson

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

--Leo Tolstoy

The thing about smart mother fuckers is that sometimes, they sound like crazy mother fuckers to stupid mother fuckers...

--Robert Kirkman

If the end does not justify the means - what can?
--Edward Abbey


The state calls its own violence `law', but that of the individual `crime'
-- Max Stirner

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.
--Aldo Leopold


Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as cooperation with good.
-- Mohandas Gandhi

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
--Leo Tolstoy