The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
HERBERT SPENCERThe Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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