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I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

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Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

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The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

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The only nations which deny the utility of provincial liberties are those which have fewest of them; in other words, those who are unacquainted with t...more

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A whole nation cannot rise above itself.