"The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself."
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"But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God."
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"All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority."
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"Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual."
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"I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something."
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"If the whole of history is in one man, it is all to be explained from individual experience."
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"In the history of the individual is always an account of his condition, and he knows himself to be a party to his present estate."
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"No society can ever be so large as one man."
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"The universal does not attract us until housed in an individual."
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"Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual."
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"They make a rout about universal liberty, without considering that all that is to be valued, or indeed can be enjoyed by individuals, is private liberty."
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"The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances."
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"What is immoral for an individual to do, is immoral for a government to do"
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"Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character."
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"The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone."
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"Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin."
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"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual."
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"With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties."
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"It is rare that the public sentiment decides immorally or unwisely, and the individual who differs from it ought to distrust and examine well his own opinion."
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"Heaven is living in your hopes and Hell is living in your fears. It's up to each individual which one he chooses."
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