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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. – James Madison

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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. – James Madison

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Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. – James Madison

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Government
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. – James Madison

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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – Thomas Carlyle

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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. – East African Proverb

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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. – Milan Kundera

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. – Bernard De Voto

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A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain. – Arabian Proverb

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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler

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Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free. – George Berkeley

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I felt theres a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. Id be a jerk not to take advantage of it. – Herman Wouk

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