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“Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages.”
“Don't talk to me about a man's being able to talk sense; everyone can talk sense. Can he talk nonsense?”
“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!”
“The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.”
“Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.”
“Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.”
“Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it; and this I know, my lords: that where law ends, tyranny begins.”
“Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.”