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"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property,...[One] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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Personal Development

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."
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"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."
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"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."
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"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."
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"All authority belongs to the people."
Politics

"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Wisdom

"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."
Leadership

"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."
Wisdom

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
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"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property,...[One] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."
Society

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
Freedom

"In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also."
Patriotism

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."
Politics

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
Happiness
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