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" It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. "

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" The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny. "

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" There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves. "

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" Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding. "

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" This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society. "

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" Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. "

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" Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. "

" Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them. "

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" To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. "

" That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise. "

" A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. "

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" I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians. "