The Americans of the United States do not let their dogs hunt the Indians as do the Spaniards in Mexico, but at bottom it is the same pitiless feeling...
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I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social...
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Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.
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I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.
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The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.
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Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.
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When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.
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A central administration enervates the nations in which it exists by incessantly diminishing their public spirit. If such an administration succeeds i...
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There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.
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Men will not accept truth at the hands of their enemies, and truth is seldom offered to them by their friends
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Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed ...
