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I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
I think the first duty of society is justice.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
In the general course of human nature, A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
In the main it will be found that a power over a man’s support (salary) is a power over his will.
Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased.