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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Desire End Freedom Pain Pleasure
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Growth Money Rich Risk Sleep
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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Development Himself Person Value
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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Action Evil Injury Oneself Person
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Government Necessary Power Reason Restriction
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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Feeling Mindset Oneself Original
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
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Human Invention Light Question
Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Desire Liberty Oneself
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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Genius Growth Minority Person Preserve Small
He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Choice Custom Himself
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Compose Individual State Worth
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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Moral State Ugly War Worst
A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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Greatness Known Tradition
All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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Establishment Moral Opinion Politics Revolution

I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

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I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.

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