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Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

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There are persons whom in my heart I despise, others I abhor. Yet I am not obliged to inform the one of my contempt, nor the other of my detestation. ...more

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Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity and happiness of the people; and not for the profit, honor, or pr...more

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There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet nothing can be inferred from it more than this, t...more

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There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures i...more

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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

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Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.