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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.: Arnold Bennett
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
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Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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In the state of nature...all men are born equal, but they cannot continue in this equality. Society makes them lose it, and they recover it only by the protection of the law.: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favour of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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