We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
HERBERT SPENCERWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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