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In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.

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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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Age Best Conquest Crave Enemies Every Food Ignorance Man Poor Progress
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
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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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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