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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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