“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
