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Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Though avarice will prevent a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.
No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.
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The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
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Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.
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I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.
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