"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

People, Banks, Will

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"The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks."

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"History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul."

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"Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end."

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"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."

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"Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality."

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"Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought."

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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."

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"I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money."

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"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

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"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."

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F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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