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There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders…

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[L]iberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted . . .
[A]ll popular and well-mixed governments [republics] . . . are ever established by wise and good men, and can never be upheld…
Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the…
[I]f vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the…
Violence and fraud can create no right.
Machiavel, discoursing on these matters, finds virtue to be so essentially necessary to the establishment and preservation of liberty, that he thinks…
The only ends for which governments are constituted, and obedience rendered to them, are the obtaining of and protection; and they who…
Nay, all laws must fall, human societies that subsist by them be dissolved, and all innocent persons be exposed to the violence…
Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit.
God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.
Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker
When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand… — Sitting Bull
I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men. — Duke of Wellington
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution,… — Henry David Thoreau
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to… — Maurice Maeterlinck
Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. — Euripides
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he… — Henry David Thoreau
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and… — Khalil Gibran
Though he should conquer a thousand men in the battlefield a thousand times, yet he, indeed, who would conquer himself is the… — Gautama Buddha
And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand… — Benjamin Franklin
It is very true that I have said that I considered Napoleon's presence in the field equal to forty thousand men in… — Duke of Wellington
I have been a soldier all my life. I have commanded companies, I have commanded regiments. I have commanded divisions. And I… — James Longstreet

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