Power tends to

Power tends to
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
  

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The good neighbour looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human, and therefore, brothers.
Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs that freedom never endangered.
Thereare no secrets. There is no mystery. There is only common sense.
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The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty.
The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.
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I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure yourealize that what you heard isn't what I meant.
No man everdid a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater tohimself .
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