No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.
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