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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

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765 I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
835 The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
865 The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
816 History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
833 Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

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