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" That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy. "
Thomas Babington Macaulay
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" Reform, that we may preserve. "
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" The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. "
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" The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves? "
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" People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. "
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" The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it. "
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" An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. "
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" The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. "
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" The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. "
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" Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. "
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" The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. "
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" Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. "
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" The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. "
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" There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. "
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" Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world. "
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" I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read. "
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Without
Than
" Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. "
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" We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. "
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" The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion. "
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" There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom. "
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" Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. "
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" Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor. "
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" None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. "
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" There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits. "
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