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The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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no form of love is wrong, so long as it is love, and you yourself honour what you are doing. Love has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
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The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the… — Plato Copy Share Image
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History must be our deliverer not only from the undue influence of other times, but from the undue influence of our own,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Copy Share Image
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