"There is something servile in the habit..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we must obey.
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“If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.”
“In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.”
“Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.”