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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Herbert Spencer

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
All socialism involves slavery.
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One Liner Politics Slave Social
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
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
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
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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