You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
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Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Edmund Burke
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Comte de Volney
When time and labor had developed riches, cupidity restrained by the laws, became more artful, but not less active. Under the mask of union and civil peace, it fomented in the bosom of every state an intestine war, in which the citizens, divided into contending corps of orders, classes, families, unremittingly struggled to appropriate to themselves, under the name of supreme power, the ability to plunder every thing, and render every thing subservient to the dictates of their passions; and this spirit of encroachment, disguised under all possible forms, but always the same in its object and motives, has never ceased to torment the nations.
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Comte de Volney
Yes, creative man, receive my homage! Thou hast measured the span of the heavens, calculated the volume of the stars, arrested the lightning in its clouds, subdued seas and storms, subjected all the elements. Ah! how are so many sublime energies allied to so many errors?
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Comte de Volney
Politics is like the human body, beautiful when viewed from the outside, but if you open it up and look inside, it’s disgusting.
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Grover Cleveland
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
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Barry Goldwater
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
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Ronald Reagan
If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth.