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"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
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"The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power."
"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time."
"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other."
"Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience."
"All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions."
"Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure."
"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."
"The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people."
"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."
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