"The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.“


-Bernard Baruch

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The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

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