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[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
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[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld…
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Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the…
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[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
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If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the…
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Violence and fraud can create no right.
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Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks…
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The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who…
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But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no…
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There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is…
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