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It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of…
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That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.
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Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.
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The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what…
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He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
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He who by an exertion of mind or body, adds to the aggregate of enjoyable wealth, increases the sum of human knowledge,…
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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who…
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For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.
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How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children…
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Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.
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That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.
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The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
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No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the…
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Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
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