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Men and governments must act t...

Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

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In its narrowest acceptation, ...

In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed.

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[I] put the question directly ...

[I] put the question directly to myself: 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?' And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, 'No!

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The concessions of the privile...

The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

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Customs are made for customary...

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

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He who does anything because i...

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

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The peculiarity of the evidenc...

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

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A person should be free to do ...

A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.

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In the human mind, one-sidedne...

In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.

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A person's taste is as much hi...

A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

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When the people are too much a...

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their good that they should be subject, the state of society is not yet ripe for representative government.

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There is a limit to the legiti...

There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

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A great statesman is he who kn...

A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.

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If it were felt that the free ...

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.

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What a country wants to make i...

What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.

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The opening of a foreign trade...

The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more co

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All errors which a man is like...

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for his good.

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Truth emerges from the clash o...

Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas.

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All women are brought up from ...

All women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.

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Liberty lies in the rights of ...

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

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