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"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."
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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."
Government
"The question is not, "Can they reason?" nor, "Can they talk?" but rather, "Can they suffer?""
Question
"Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart."
Governance
"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."
Government
"As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends."
Censorship
"Every law is an infraction of liberty."
Law
"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."
Time
"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."
Happiness
"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."
Reasoning
"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."
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"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
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"An assembly is extra slow in taking actions."
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Personal Development
"If a country complains that they don't have good leaders, those leaders are only as a result of the prevailing value system that every citizen of that country has been exposed to."
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Personal Development
"Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves."
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"Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are."
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Personal Development
"Either cry for exchanging new currency notes for couple of days or crib for corruption for ages and generations with old one. Choice is yours."
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"When some claim demarcation and "regulation, others fancy "deregulation, preferring foxes guarding the henhouse or chicken yards with free chickens and free foxes. Friend or foe, hen or fox, anyone can have a go. ['This far']"
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"Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."
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"In reality, commissions rarely solve complicated problems. Therefore, the following question arises: what is worse " to establish a commission knowing it cannot solve a complicated problem, or to believe that the commission will truly solve such a problem?"
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"There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences."
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