It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.
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Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
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Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies.
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
