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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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The footsteps of Nature are to be trac'd, not only in her ordinary course, but when she seems to be put to…
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Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there…
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Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which…
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May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were…
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We have to distinguish two classes of instincts, one of which, the sexual instincts or Eros, is by far the more conspicuous…
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