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One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top, there is no limit to repression
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet every one thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would by my standard of a statesman
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer that, for any particular purpose, it is what the people think so
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next
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