We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances - to choose one's own way.
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When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
When the people have no tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.
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Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
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All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.
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None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.
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I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.
