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“A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.”

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It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.

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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.

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Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.

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A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

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