The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
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In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
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There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
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When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
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