People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.Thomas B. Macaulay
Time advances facts accumulate doubts arise. Faint glimpses of truth begin to appear, and shine more and more unto the perfect day. The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn. They are bright, while the level below is still in darkness. But soon the light, which at first illuminated only the loftiest eminences, descends on the plain, and penetrates to the deepest valley. First come hints, then fragments of systems, then defective systems, then complete and harmonious systems. The sound opinion, held for a time by one bold speculator, becomes the opinion of a small minority, of a strong minority, of a majority of mankind. Thus, the great progress goes on.
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Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
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This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
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That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.
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