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/ page 728 of 1205 /The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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