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" By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. "

" People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. "

" Education is the cheap defense of nations. "

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" The march of the human mind is slow. "

" Ambition can creep as well as soar. "

" In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. "

" He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. "

" One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good. "

" A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. "

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" Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. "

" The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. "

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" It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. "

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" Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. "

" 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. "

" Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. "