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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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Those who realise their folly are not true fools.
— Zhuangzi
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The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so…
— H. L. Mencken
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Lord, enlighten thou our enemies. Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we…
— John Stuart Mill
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You can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the wisdom of the…
— William Allen White
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The ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.
— James Russell Lowell
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Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
— Jonathan Swift
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Behold! I am weary of my wisdom, like the bee that has gathered too much honey; I need hands outstretched to take…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are…
— Dean Koontz
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Those who realize their folly are not true fools.
— Zhuangzi
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Some people take more care to hide their wisdom, than their folly.
— Jonathan Swift
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