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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunct...more

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The worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.

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All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions andmodes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspea...more

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There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as an outrage to their feelings; as a...more

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Whoever fails in the consideration generally due to the interests and feelings of others, not being compelled by some more imperative duty, or justifi...more

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Even despotism does not produce its worst effects, so long as individuality exists under it; and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whate...more