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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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Exact Greatness Nature
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Darkness Force Need People Success
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression

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