The most seditious is the most cowardly.
TACITUSReason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.
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If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
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Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.
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Liberty is given by nature even to mute animals.
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More faults are often committed while we are trying to oblige than while we are giving offense.
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Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
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The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
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[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.
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By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.
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The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
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Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family
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If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.
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Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.
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Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end.
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The hatred of relatives is the most violent.
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Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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