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The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
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Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty.
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Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.
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The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
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Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.
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God has given the salt lick to the deer and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is found only to exist in those communities that are but slightly removed from the savage state. In practice, it can only mean a common misery.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
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