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The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
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We must judge a government by its general tendencies and not by its happy accidents.
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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
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History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamit
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Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ph
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.
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The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
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In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn
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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
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The English Bible: a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.
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