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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will extend to far great number, and will be carried on with much greater fury, than can almost ever be apprehended from the dominion of a single sceptre. Under a cruel prince they have the plaudits of the people to animate their generous constancy under their sufferings; but those who are subjected to wrong under multitudes are deprived of all external consolation: they seem deserted by mankind, overpowered by a conspiracy of their whole species.
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
