When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCER
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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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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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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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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 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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