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I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born into the world with boots and spurs, and a nation born with saddles on their backs. - [Despotism] If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established. - [Liberty] Liars ought to have good memories. - [Lying] Where liberty is, there is my country. - Algernon, his motto [Patriotism : Mottoes] God helps those who help themselves. - Discourse Concerning Government (ch. II, pt. XXIII) [Help : God : Proverbs] Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small. - Discourses on Government (ch. II, sec. 18) [Fish : Society] This shows that liars ought to have good memories. - Discourses on Government (ch. II, sec. XV) [Lying] But it is not necessary to light a candle to the sun. - Discourses on Government (ch. II, sec. XXIII) [Light]
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