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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad man.
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms--neve ...
I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty, as voluntarily to submit to ...
The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail--its roof may shake--the wind may ...
He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally an ...
He was as jealous of his power as an impotent lover of his mistress, without activity of mind enough to enjoy or exert it, but cou ...
His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were t ...
You'll get tired of chickens, Louie.
I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season ...
There is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.
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