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"Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
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"We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have."
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"If he who employs coercion against me could mould me to his purposes by argument, no doubt he would. He pretends to punish me because his argument is strong; but he really punishes me because his argument is weak."
Argument
"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination."
Imagination
"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
Government
"God himself has no right to be a tyrant."
God
"Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions."
Government
"Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny."
Revolution
"In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question."
Love
"The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men."
Man
"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."
Life
"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."
Imagination
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