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If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
Well, I'm not a crook.
Well, I'm not a crook.
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs read more
It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some read more
The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can read more
Government and state can never be perfect because they owe their raison d'etre to the imperfection of man and can attain their end, the elimination of man's innate impulse to violence, only by recourse to violence, the very thing they are called upon to prevent.
It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to read more
It can not even be said that the State has ever shown any disposition to suppress crime, but only to safeguard its own monopoly of crime.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
