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How mighty, as to the outward, is that Power by which they are borne down, and oppressed!
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government
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If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.
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The confirmed criminal is as much entitled to redress as his most virtuous fellow citizen; no record of crime, however long, makes one an outlaw.
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Decency, security, and liberty alike demand that government officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.
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the right to be let alone--the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
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A false and a childish sorrow is appeased with as false and as childish a revenge.
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Anger is not only a vice, but a vice point-blank against nature, for it divides instead of joining
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If you want liberty you yourselves must strike the blow. If you must be free you must become so through your own effort, through your own initiative.
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The world does not count races and nations that have nothing.
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Our first object, then, should be to prevent a breach; our second, to secure that, if it does occur, our friendship should seem to have died a natural rather than a violent death.
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The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood nor should he be in danger of losing his reputation or livelihood merely because he happens to know someone who holds unpopular beliefs.
Margaret Chase Smithverified·Declaration of Conscience (remarks in the United States Senate)·June 1, 1950
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Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful
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Every corps is a chain of despots, who, submitting and tyrannizing without exercising their reason, become dead weights of vice and folly on the community.
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Slavery to monarchs and ministers, which the world will be long in freeing itself from, and whose deadly grasp stops the progress of the human mind, is not yet abolished.
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The many have always been enthralled by the few; and, monsters who have scarcely shown any discernment of human excellence, have tyrannized over thousands of their fellow creatures.
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The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.
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Why do they expect virtue from a slave, or from a being whom the constitution of civil society has rendered weak, if not vicious?
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I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves
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Do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a victim, you are not. Get over it and get on with it.
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One thing you can depend on people being…is people.
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Your heart is wounded with compassion to hear the mourning of friends, and, perhaps with anger, to hear the counterfeit condolings of pretenders.