In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up.
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The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.
The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.
The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
Let the sun shine in.
Let the sun shine in.
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It is much safer to obey, than to govern.
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Despair and misery are static factors. The dynamism of an uprising flows from hope and pride. Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
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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.
