"With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

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"History shows how feeble are barriers of paper."

"A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind."

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"The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty."

"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."