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"There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong."
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"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason."
War

"Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad."
Home

"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government."
Government

"The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad."
Home

"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse."
Government

"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits."
Government

"By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt."
Inequality

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
Power

"America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts."
Immigration

"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea."
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"To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest."
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"I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data."
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"When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke."
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Personal Development

"It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go."
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Personal Development

"My interest lies in my self-expression - what's inside of me - not what I'm in."
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Personal Development

"They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me."
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Personal Development

"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."
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Personal Development

"My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that."
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Personal Development

"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."
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"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal."
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