"Not one little fellow need fear that he will be forbidden to pluck his shining grape from the cluster of political Power, that fruit reputed to be so ...

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One is always a good master when one isn’t the master

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"We have also set up for them an edifying project for a continuous mitigation of their own tyranny, ascribing to them an unshakeable faith in the trium...
"To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those co...
"Observe this fact: in the history of mankind, every ruler who has lacked personal greatness has been forced to compensate for the deficiency by settin...