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Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.
Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.
Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Power is every stealing from the many to the few.
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