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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 humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.
— Irving Babbitt
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Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutalized.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can…
— Jose Mujica
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The world is a sacred vessel. It should not be meddled with. It should not be owned. If you try to meddle…
— Laozi
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The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or…
— Plato
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It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.
— Bulent Ecevit
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If any person should meddle with my cause, I require them to judge the best'.
— Anne Boleyn
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For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And…
— Marie de France
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Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his…
— Horatius Bonar
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