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“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”

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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

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“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

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“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs…

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“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…

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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never…

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What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the…

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Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in…

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

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“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action…

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“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

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