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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
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A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
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In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
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The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
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None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
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The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
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And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
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There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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Next to fried foods, the South has suffered most from oratory.
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