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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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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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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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