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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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Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces…
— Isaac Newton
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The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general…
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General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame…
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I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition…
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Ronald Reagan in foreign affairs, I think, was someone who had certain, very general ideas, general propositions by which he lives: To…
— Robert Dallek
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The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a…
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