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"The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations."
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"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."
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"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play."
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"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."
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"It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies."
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"When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one."
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"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
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"Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others."
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"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
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"I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
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"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago."
Government
"Genius is sorrow's child."
Genius
"The happiness of society is the end of government."
Happiness
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
Society
"Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak."
Power
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
Democracy
"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman."
Politics
"Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws."
Power
"Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases."
Power
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