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We cannot, any of us, do all the things of which mankind stand in need; we must have fellow-labourers.

~William Godwin

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The true object of moral and political disquisition is pleasure or happiness.

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Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.

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Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

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The most desirable state of mankind is that which maintains general security with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.

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Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

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Soundness of understanding is connected with freedom of enquiry; consequently, opinion should, as far as public security will admit, be exempted from restraint.

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The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.

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When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.

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The question now afloat in the world respecting 'things as they are' is the most interesting that can be presented to the human mind. While one party pleads for reformation and change, the other extols in the warmest terms the existing constitution of society.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: March 3rd, 1756

Died: April 7th, 1836

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