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"The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract."
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"It is in our authority and power to stop torment and sickness and deliver people from vanity."
"All human beings wield influence-a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care."
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"The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence."
"The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business."
"Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon."
"In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents."
"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."
"The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race."
"Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men."
"People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives."
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