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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other."
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Of all nations in the world the English are perhaps the least a nation of pure philosophers.
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"The whole history of civilisation is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards."
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"So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism --despotism during the campaign --is indispensable."
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"Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits."
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