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The best road to progress is freedom's road.
-   John F. Kennedy

We must be free not because we claim freedom,  but because we practice it.
-   William Faulkner

Those who won our independence...  valued liberty as an end and as a means.  They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty.

-   Louis D. Brandeis

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence.
-   Abraham Lincoln