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No Public Character Has Ever Stood The Revelation Of Private Utterance And Correspondence.

The History Of Institutions Is Often A History Of Deception And Illusions; For Their Virtue Depends On The Ideas That Produce And On The Spirit That Preserves Them, And The Form May Remain Unaltered When The Substance Has Passed Away.

Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men, Even When They Exercise Influence And Not Authority...

I Cannot Accept Your Canon That We Are To Judge Pope And King Unlike Other Men, With A Favorable Presumption That They Do No Wrong. If There Is Any Presumption, It Is The Other Way Against Holders Of Power...power Tends To Corrupt And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.

Guard Against The Prestige Of Great Names; See That Your Judgments Are Your Own; And Do Not Shrink From Disagreement; No Trusting Without Testing