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“Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

“Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”
― James Madison, The Federalist Papers

“The notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.”
― Isaiah Berlin, The Proper Study of Mankind

“no punishment, in my opinion, is too great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin”
― George Washington