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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.

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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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