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"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
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"Nothing is so useless as a general maxim."
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"The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state."
"That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy."
"There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen."
"Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear."
"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
"To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population."
"Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!"
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