"The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be……" — Herbert Spencer
"The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity of restraints it imposes upon him."
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Herbert Spencer
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113 Quotes by Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer has 113 quotes on this site.
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on,…
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the…
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the…
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become…
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less…
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that…
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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I love my country. And I would have to renounce my Spanish citizenship to become a U.S. Citizen.
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I'm a happy person but an angry citizen.
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