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- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling…
- I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and…
- if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our…
- The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or…
- Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with…
- Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always…
- the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be…
- Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any…
- Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to…
- Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin…
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