Quotes on political-philosophy

If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.

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Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...

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When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

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Pues nada ha sido nunca para un hombre o una sociedad humana más insoportable que la libertad.

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The job facing American voters in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.

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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

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religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism.

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Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

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Sovereign is he who decides on the exception.

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Quando devi uccidere un uomo non costa nulla essere gentile.

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I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

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Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

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