Concentration of wealth will never be a problem as long as we have those three great institutions for redistributing it: Taxes, wives, offspring.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing:

Faith is continuation of reason.

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Democracy is the art of disciplining onself, so that one need not be disciplined by others.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten tout for flattery.

A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talkerwith a sore throat.

Those who trust us educate us.

To know the pains of power, we must go to those who haveit; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.

Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a woodengong. With trust, words become life itself.

If pain could have cured us, we should have long ago been saved.