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“With the Germans, the sovereignty resided in the great assembly of the people.”
“Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.”
“When did one man ever civilize a people?”
“Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.”
“History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.”
“In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.”
“The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.”