Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
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Was there ever any domination which did not appear natural to those who possessed it.
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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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All that makes existence valuable to anyone, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race posterity as well as the existing generation those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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