The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms, armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes
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Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
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A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.
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Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant. They make a wilderness and they call it peace.
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Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.
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War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
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A cowardly populace which will dare nothing beyond talk.
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Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
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Bodies are slow of growth, but are rapid in their dissolution. [Lat., Corpora lente augescent, cito extinguuntur.]
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Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.
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Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.
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Conspicuous by his absence.
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So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity.
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It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
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The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
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