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Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and read more
Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.
The future will be better tomorrow.
The future will be better tomorrow.
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
Tyranny and despotism can be exercised by many, more rigourously, more vigourously, and more severely, than by one.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the read more
Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are read more
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also is despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.
