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You May Talk Of The Tyranny Of Nero And Tiberius; But The Real Tyranny Is The Tyranny Of Your Next-door Neighbor.

Efficiency In An Assembly Requires A Solid Mass Of Steady Votes; And These Are Collected By A Deferential Attachment To Particular Men, Or By A Belief In The Principles That Those Men Represent, And They Are Maintained By Fear Of Those Men - By The Fear That If You Vote Against Them, You May Soon Yourself Have No Vote At All.

There Seems To Be An Unalterable Contradiction Between The Human Mind And Its Employments. How Can A Soul Be A Merchant? What Relation To An Immortal Being Have The Price Of Linseed, The Brokerage On Hemp? Can An Undying Creature Debit Petty Expenses And Charge For Carriage Paid? The Soul Ties Its Shoes; The Mind Washes Its Hands In A Basin. All Is Incongruous.

One Of The Greatest Pains To Human Nature Is The Pain Of A New Idea. It...makes You Think That After All, Your Favorite Notions May Be Wrong, Your Firmest Beliefs Ill-founded....naturally, Therefore, Common Men Hate A New Idea, And Are Disposed More Or Less To Ill-treat The Original Man Who Brings It.

A Democratic Despotism Is Like A Theocracy: It Assumes Its Own Correctness.