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The law of nations is founded upon reason and justice, and the rules of conduct governing individual relations between citizens or subjects of a civilized state are equally applicable as between enlightened nations.

— Grover Cleveland

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Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

Government resting upon the will and universal suffrage of the people has no anchorage except in the people's intelligence.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Confucius

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