Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, y
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might b
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it dis
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Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the
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Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very
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If it were possible to make an accurate calculation of the evils which police regulations occasion, and of those which they preven
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Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.
The sensual and spiritual are linked together by a mysterious bond, sensed by our emotions, though hidden from our eyes. To this d
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If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the peri
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Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and
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