A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
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Government is essentially immoral.Herbert Spencer
The survival of the fittest.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear so surely must man become perfect.
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We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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