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Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.

— Herbert Spencer Social Statics (1851)

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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.

Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative (1891)

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

The Principles of Ethics (1897)

All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives.

Social Statics (1851)

The truth is, that those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Social Statics (1851)

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