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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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.Herbert Spencer
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Whatever foster militarism makes for barbarism whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
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