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Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the…
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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may…
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A fondness for power is implanted in most men, and it is natural to abuse it when acquired.
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...great Ambition, unchecked by principle, or the love of Glory, is an unruly Tyrant...
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There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that…
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Ambition without principle never was long under the guidance of good sense.
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It is a general principle of human nature, that a man will be interested in whatever he possesses, in proportion to the…
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
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Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.
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The passions of a revolution are apt to hurry even good men into excesses.
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Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over…
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The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide…
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Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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At Athens, wise men propose, and fools dispose.
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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
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Think not silence the wisdom of fools; but, if rightly timed, the honor of wise men, who have not the infirmity, but…
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Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it.
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We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very…
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Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own.
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There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom.
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Wise men are not wise at all times.
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