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Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Baron de Montesquieu

If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them.
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Brain Guarantees Humans
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.
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Abuse Peace Tendencies
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones.
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Deed Majority Men
The sublimity of administration consists in knowing the proper degree of power that should be exerted on different occasions.
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Degrees Different Knowing
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Virtue is necessary to a republic.
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Republic Virtue
A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
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Freedom Liberty Missing
Man is a social animal formed to please in society.
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Animal Men Society
The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.
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Honesty Integrity War
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
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Funny Inspirational Integrity Leadership
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.
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Government Law Thinking
There should be weeping at a man’s birth, not at his death.
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Birth Death Men Weep

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