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It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
A political career brings out the basest qualities in human nature.
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which read more
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they read more
It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
