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"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
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"Not being treated as equal IS oppression."

"The principle is twofold, do not forget. The book, as a book, belongs to the author, but as a thought, it belongs " the word is not too extreme " to the human race. All intelligences, all minds, are eligible, all own it. If one of these two rights, the right of the writer and the right of the human mind, were to be sacrificed, it would certainly be the right of the writer, because the public interest is our only concern, and that must take precedence in anything that comes before us."

"Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing."

"Your right in a civilized society is to have freedom."

"Time will come and riding horses will be seen by the whole society as a severe animal rights violation!"

"It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights."

"If I am ever unexpectedly stopped in my car by the police, my response after pulling over in a populated area is to politely and clearly inform them that I am unarmed, I am recording everything, if they want to take me to the police station that they will need to appoint a lawyer, and I am now using my USA federal right to silence."
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"The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities."

"The history of mankind is confined within a limited period, and from every quarter brings an intimation that human affairs have had a beginning."

"Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men."

"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design."

"In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many."
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