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We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), Speech on Parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831
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We must judge of a form of government by its general tendency, not by happy accidents.: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859), Speech on Parliamentary reform, March 2, 1831
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There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, House of Commons, May 2, 1935
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Outline of History, vol.2, chapter 41, 1921
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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty,chapter 3, 1859
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If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Voice of the Master
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2, 1879
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), Letter to Archibald Stuart, December 23, 1791
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