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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Herbert Spencer

Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Adjustment Life Relationship
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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Form Government Old Terror
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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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Color Glass Project Pull See
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
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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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit

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