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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit,…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure,…
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of…
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,…
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair…
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That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a being like…
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as…
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record,…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain an hypothesis,…
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And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police,…
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Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
— Pasquier Quesnel
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A tax is always a sacrifice which the government demands of individuals.While it only lessens every one's personal eÇŒoyments, it only shifts…
— Antoine Destutt de Tracy
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This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost…
— Alexander Hamilton
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A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is…
— Gabriel Marcel
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It is not possible to make a LASTING compromise between technology and freedom, because technology is by far the more powerful social…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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As populations crowd toward the ocean's edge and the sea encroaches menacingly toward the land, John R. Gillis looks at the history…
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
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Only rarely do we see beyond the needs of humanity, and he linked this blindness to our Christian and humanist infrastructure. It…
— James Lovelock
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Television watching does reduce reading and often encroaches on homework. Much of it is admittedly the intellectual equivalent of junk food. But…
— Edward Hirsch
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You will learn to paint trees only by understanding them, their growth, their nature, their movement - and realizing that they are…
— John F. Carlson
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