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"What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political."
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"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."
"It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land."
"As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness."
"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
"Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program."
"Tonight - by taking this solemn oath - I am no longer a private citizen but the Mayor of the City of Chicago."
"If a due participation of office is a matter of right how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few by resignation none."
"Politics devoid of ethics does not further human welfare, and life without morality reduces humans to the level of beasts."
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"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."
"However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once."
"Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices."
"Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million."
"I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder."
"Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception. After a few years the child never sees her again. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. But she is greatly mistaken; she is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son; she is teaching him ingratitude, and she is preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him, as he now despises his nurse."
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