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- May
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
- Opinion
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?
- Man
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To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
- Failure
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American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
- Made
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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
- Know
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
- Genius
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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
- Dialects
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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
- Exalt
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To sum up the whole, we should say that the aim of the Platonic philosophy was to exalt man into a god.
- Freedom
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There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
- Gallery
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The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
- Government
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That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
- Men
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Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
- Preserve
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Reform, that we may preserve.
- Mind
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Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
- Maxim
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- Nov 07, 2020