The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.
The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success
The men of England, the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
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