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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.
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Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
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Edward Wallis Hoch (1849 - 1925), Marion (Kansas) Record
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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
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Lydia Sigourney
The important thing is to know when to laugh, or since laughing is somewhat undignified to smile. But the smile must be of the right kind must have understanding in it, and friendliness, and a good deal of patience.
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Roderic Owen
All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things, that the indolent man and the laborious man, the spendthrift and the economist, the imprudent and the wise, should obtain and enjoy an equal amount of goods.
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Victor Cousin (1792 - 1867)
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
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Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Tis the good reader that makes the good book.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
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Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650)
Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
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