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Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?
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The most respectful deference is due to doubts originating in pure patriotism and sustained by venerated authority.
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No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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Universal History, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
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was it not obvious that flocks and herds were more ready to obey their keepers than men their rulers