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Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people.

— James Fitzjames Stephen Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

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Men have an all but incurable propensity to try to prejudge all the great questions which interest them by stamping their prejudices upon their language.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

To try to make men equal by altering social arrangements is like trying to make the cards of equal value by shuffling the pack.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

The criminal law stands to the passion of revenge in much the same relation as marriage to the sexual appetite.

A General View Of The Criminal Law Of England (1863)

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

I am not the advocate of Slavery, Caste, and Hatred, nor do I deny that a sense may be given to the words, Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, in which they may be regarded as good.

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)

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