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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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Falsehood is a perennial spring.

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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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The march of the human mind is slow.

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

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