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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

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I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

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The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is real...more

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Experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind; for I can apply no milder term to the governments of Europe, and to the ge...more

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The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, a...more