To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
JOHN STUART MILLIn all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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