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“Excess of liberty contradicts itself. In short, there is no such thing; there is only liberty for one and restraint for another. If liberty then be regarded as a social ideal, the problem of establishing liberty must be a problem of organizing restraints; and thus the conception of a liberty which is to set an entire people free from its government appears to be a self-contradictory ideal.”
“If there is one law for the Government and another for it's subjects, one for noble and another for commoner, one for rich and another for poor, the law does not guarantee liberty for all.”
“If the child was helpless, was the grown up person, man or woman, in a much better position?”
“Compulsion may be necessary for the purposes of external order, but it adds nothing to the inward life that is the true being of a man.”
“The fancied clearness of Utopian vision is illusory, because its objects are artificial ideas and not living facts.”
“We need less of the fanatics of sectarianism and more of the unifying mind.”
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