All that makes existence valuable to anyone, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it -- a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes -- will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
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What is contrary to womens nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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