It is this very freedom—this absence of State and National restraint—that has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.
He critiques the concentration of wealth and power resulting from unrestricted freedom.
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France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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