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Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

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Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or pr...more

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A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, t...more

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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

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A government of laws, and not of men