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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"
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"Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little."

"She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind."

"We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather."

"Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real."

"An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind."

"By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade."
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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."

"My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."
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