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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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