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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters…
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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus…
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that…
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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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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It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it…
— Simon Bolivar
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the…
— Lord Acton
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After one hundred years of federal rule, the United States House of Representatives has moved to provide for the first meaningful route…
— Dick Thornburgh
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So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in…
— William Eldridge Odom
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The federal government is the balance wheel of the federal system, and the federal system means using counterweights.
— Pierre Trudeau
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We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in…
— Barry McCaffrey
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