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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.

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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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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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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 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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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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