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The great fish swallow up the small; and he who is most strenuous for the rights of the people, when vested with power, is as eager after the prerogatives of government.

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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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I acknowledge myself a unitarian
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Acknowledge Myself Religion Unitarian
I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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I desire you would Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.
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These are the times when a genius wants to live.
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May justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.
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The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason… affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.
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What is meat for one is not for another–no accounting for fancy.
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Accounting Fancy Meat One
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal!
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Posterity who are to reap the blessings will scarcely be able to conceive the hardships and sufferings of their ancestors.
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When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant
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Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.
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When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what
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Happen Know Man Ought Reason
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power
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Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.
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To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.
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Comprise Duty Few Good Man Whole Word

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