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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
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In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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