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| Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Politics have no relation to morals. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair. | [▲] | [▼] |
| One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived. | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the leadin the introduction of a new order to things. | [▲] | [▼] |
| A new system is a hard thing to put into place, it is opposed by those that would be disadvantaged by the new system and it receives no support from those that would benefit. | [▲] | [▼] |
| It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones. | [▲] | [▼] |
| Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied. | [▲] | [▼] |