Government is essentially immoral.
HERBERT SPENCERAn 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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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 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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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