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I Do Not Know How To Wish Success To Those Whose Victory Is To Separate From Us A Large And Noble Part Of Our Empire. Still Less Do I Wish Success To Injustice, Oppression And Absurdity.

Refined Policy Ever Has Been The Parent Of Confusion, And Ever Will Be So As Long As The World Endures. Plain Good Intention, Which Is As Easily Discovered At The First View As Fraud Is Surely Detected At Last, Is Of No Mean Force In The Government Of Mankind.

Vice Itself Lost Half Its Evil, By Losing All Its Grossness.

Men Are As Much Blinded By The Extremes Of Misery As By The Extremes Of Prosperity.

A State Without The Means Of Some Change Is Without The Means Of Its Conservation.