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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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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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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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