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"Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers."
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"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Performance
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"We do not know what is really good or bad fortune."
Fortune
"Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."
People
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
Money
"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."
Truth
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
Happiness
"The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction."
Body
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal."
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"I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
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"Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me."
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"It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach."
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"Speaker Newt Gingrich has appointed a task force, which I'm on, and over the next couple months the task force is going to try to come up with legislation that does what we're all trying to do. I feel pretty good about the members that are on the task force."
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"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining."
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"Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts."
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"The red directors were one of the main political forces. Another force was the former Soviet ministers who lost everything because of the transformation of the Soviet Union to Russia."
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"Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling."
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"Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."
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