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"This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural."
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"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."
"The financial elite already have the politicians in their pockets, as a result of their lobbying."
"Politics should be a field that attracts statesmen, not future CEO's and board members."
"In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises: what is worse " to establish a commission knowing it cannot solve a complicated problem, or to believe that the commission will truly solve such a problem?"
"The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things."
"An assembly is extra slow in taking actions."
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
"Any nation that teaches and make there people look for miracles are making their people weak."
"A statesman who is enamored of existing evils as distin-quished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
"When a religious system or a government organizes into a bureaucracy, it is the bureaucracy that incessantly moves all activities increasingly and inevitably towards it's own destruction. The momentum will always become greater than the influence of it's wisest members."
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"The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy."
"There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices."
"Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those things that concern themselves and their posterity, and suspect the words of such as are interested in deceiving or persuading them not to see with their own eyes."
"Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty."
"'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force."
"A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast."
"Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect."
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