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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are read more
The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.
All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin.
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if read more
I gave 'em a sword. And they stuck it in, and they twisted it with relish. And I guess if I had been in their position, I'd have done the same thing.
That government is best which governs least.
That government is best which governs least.
The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems read more
Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side.
