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Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)
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Power is not happiness. Security and peace are more to be desired than a man at which nations tremble.
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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.
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I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.
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About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
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Born:
March 3, 1756
Died:
April 7, 1836
(aged 80)
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