There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what they are going to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
The United States of America is the greatest, the noblest and, in its original founding principles, the only moral country in the history of the world.
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.
Films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.
Thus not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within solitude of his own heart.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: "This is my country."
I am not aware that any community has a right to force another to be civilized.
Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.
