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If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.: Yugoslav Proverb
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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradually induced, by a like motive to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.: Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Things we not hope for often come to pass than things we wish.: Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1854)
First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists but I was not one of them, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Jews but I was not Jewish so I did not speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me.: Martin Niemoeller
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases; it is the easiest thing of all to deceive one’s self.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC), Olynthiac
Death is not the worst thing; rather, when one who craves death cannot attain even that wish.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Electra
I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.: Alexander Woollcott (1887 - 1943), Letter to Rex O'Malley, 1942
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.: Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849), Agnes Grey

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