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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Absolute Appeal Appear People Redemption Refuge Treason
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Easier Find Fit Govern People Themselves
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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