“The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.”
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Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
