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- Love of power, operating through greed and through personal ambition, was the cause of all these evils.
- I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
- Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of…
- The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who…
- Indeed men too often take upon themselves in the prosecution of their revenge to set the example of doing away with those general laws to…
- If it had not been for the pernicious power of envy, men would not so have exalted vengeance above innocence and profit above justice... in…
- A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen…
- Abstinence from all injustice to other first-rate powers is a greater tower of strength than anything that can be gained by the sacrifice of permanent…
- Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
- When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the…
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