The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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