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“Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)
“The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)
“Legislators or revolutionaries who promise equality coupled with freedom are either phantasts or charlatans.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
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