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"The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed."
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"The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied."
"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves."
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
"Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
"Accidental wisdom is better than willful folly."
"Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down."
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"The American Republic was bound - is still bound - to follow in the centuries to come the same course to destruction as did Rome."
"And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction."
"We have seen a central government taking more and more control over public education, over communications, over transportation, over every detail of our daily lives."
"There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own."
"The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow."
"The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people."
"In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule."
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