"How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?"

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"How can an act done under compulsion have any moral element in it, seeing that what is moral is the free act of an intelligent being?"

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"It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."

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"Think before you act and act on what you believe."

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"Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"I will act as if what I do makes a difference."

William James, American Philosopher

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"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."

Thomas Paine, English Writer

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"Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force."

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"The course that will restore to the workmen a father's duties and responsibilities, between which and themselves the state has now stepped, is for them to reject all forced contributions from others, and to do their own work through their own voluntary combinations."

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"If we cannot by reason, by influence, by example, by strenuous effort, and by personal sacrifice, mend the bad places of civilization, we certainly cannot do it by force."

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"The career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation."

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"You will not make a man wiser by taking freedom of action from him. A man can only learn when he is free to act."

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"How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb the rights of two men, and make them as if they had never existed."

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"If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves."

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