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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet i

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. – Herbert Spencer

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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal. – Herbert Spencer

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Success
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. – Herbert Spencer

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Future
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. – Herbert Spencer

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Health
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Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. – Richard G. Scott

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The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. – Willa Cather

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Freedom

When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. – Jack Herer

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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. – Edith Hamilton

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Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like. – William O. Douglas

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