Every law is an infraction of liberty.
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O Logic born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants come to the aid of thy master, Legislation.
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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