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"We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours; we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries."
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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."
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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."
"Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime."
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"If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous."
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
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