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The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
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Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.
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I am no courtier, nor moderator, nor Tribune, nor defender of the people: I am myself the people.
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Peoples do not judge in the same way as courts of law; they do not hand down sentences, they throw thunderbolts; they do not condemn kings, they drop them back into the void; and this justice is worth just as much as that of the courts.
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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Born:
May 6, 1758
Died:
July 28, 1794
(aged 36)
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