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.
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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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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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.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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