For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT
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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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That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
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Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
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One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Everyone desires long life, not one old age.
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It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
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Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
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There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.
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If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
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Ay, do despise me, I’m the prouder for it; I like to be despised.
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An idle reason lessens the weight of the good ones you gave before.
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You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.
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