We 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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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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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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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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