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"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."
"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."
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"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."
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"The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth."
"In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs."
"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
"The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples."
"Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience."
"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
"The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart."
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