“I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.”
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I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.