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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

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Herbert Spencer
Born: 1824
Born: April 27
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The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
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It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to a particular phase of human development. It is not essential, but incidental. As amongst the Bushmen we find a state antecedent to government, so may there be one in which it shall have become extinct.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making?
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Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory it supported by no facts at all.
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So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
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Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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