Weak minds exaggerate too much the wrong done to the Africans.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.
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When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
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