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• History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
• Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
• Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
• If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
• Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
• And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters…
• I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
• The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus…
• The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that…
• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
• Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and…

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