“The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands curtailed, lest Rome become bankrupt.”
“Freedom is participation in power.”
“It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.”
“No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.”
“This excessive licence, which the anarchists think is the only true freedom, provides the stock, as it were, from which a tyrant grows.”
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