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    If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.

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...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.

...tradition and custom becomes intertwined and are a strong coercion which directs the society upon fixed lines, and strangles liberty.

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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the read more

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

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I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

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The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].

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Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.

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The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

The price of power is responsibility for the public good.

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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.

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He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.

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