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• Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor…
• The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods
• The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive…
• In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a…
• When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
• Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for,…
• Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe…
• It is a know fact that almost all revolutions have been the work, not of the common people, but of the aristocracy,…
• The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal,…
• For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land.
• Assume that the new elite were clearly and simply to proclaim its intentions which are to supplant the old elite; no one…
• My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry.

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