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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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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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Every class is unfit to govern.
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