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"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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