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The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without.
No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation.
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain but to preserve and enlarge freedom.
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
In our village, folk say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.
I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.
When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.
To think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration.
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
The worst have lost their fear and the best have lost their hope.
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
The Conservatives…being by the law of their existence the stupidest party.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning.
It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.
No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.
The Great Society created by steam and electricity may be a society, but it is no community.
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.