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The 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.

Herbert Spencer

Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Color Glass Project Pull See
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
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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Form Government Old Terror
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom

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