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“Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.”
― James Madison

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“When the hunter sets traps only for rabbits, tigers and dragons are left uncaught.”
― Li Po

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“Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?”
― Sri Aurobindo

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“Revolution is progressivist and seeks the strengthening of the state; rebellion is reactionary and seeks its disappearance. The revolutionary is a potential government official; the rebel is a reactionary in action.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila

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“The anarchic is the true divine state of man in the end as in the beginning; but in between it would lead us straight to the devil and his kingdom.”
― Sri Aurobindo

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