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There are only two races (and they are not distinguished by color): those who are free and those who are not.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
How much of our lives could we buy back if we cherished our lives instead of our trinkets?
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.
I dream of a time when the people will retake their airways and use them to achieve a voice to rediscover democracy, and to see the divine potential of man.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The Internet has become the phenomenon of the new century. It has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
Use simple words, words that create pictures and action and that generate feeling.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
To bargain freedom for security is the devil's bargain. Having made the bargain, one enjoys neither freedom nor security.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
We cannot, as a people, remain mute and free.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
To freely bloom — that is my definition of success.
The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies.
Humanscape : Environments for People (1987)
Money in doses disproportionate to our needs enslaves.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The stain of prejudice is often indelible.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
The power argument is an argument so powerful in its structure, so compelling in its delivery that when we assume the power stance the argument cannot be defeated.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)
As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
Give Me Liberty! (1998)
Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape.
How to Argue and Win Every Time (1995)