If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.John Acton
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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