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One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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A good despotism is an altogether false ideal, which practically (except as a means to some temporary purpose) becomes the most senseless and dangerous of chimeras.
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One of the benefits of freedom is that under it the ruler can not pass by the people's minds, and amend their affairs for them without amending them.
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Between subjection to the will of others and the virtues of self-help and self-government there is a natural incompatibility.
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Responsibility is null when nobody knows who is responsible; nor, even when real, can it be divided without being weakened.
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The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.