Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFTI said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
More Jonathan Swift Quotes
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For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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Physicians ought not to give their judgment of religion, for the same reason that butchers are not admitted to be jurors upon life and death.
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There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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How is it possible to expect that mankind will take advice when they will not so much as take warning.
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He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
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The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end.
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A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
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You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.
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There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
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