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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.

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A bureaucracy always tends to become a pedantocracy.

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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

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Each is the only safe guardian of his own rights and interests.

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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

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Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

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The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.

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There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

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All the good of which humanity is capable is comprised in obedience.

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Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint

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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

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Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

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That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

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Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments.

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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

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The Conservatives…being by the law of their existence the stupidest party.

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Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.

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Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

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I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.

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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

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A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do never does all he can.

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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.

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The generality of the male sex cannot yet tolerate the idea of living with an equal.

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The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves.

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Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

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