"When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished."
― Adam Weishaupt
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Government
― Adam Weishaupt
More From Adam Weishaupt
- "And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it."
- "It was the full conviction of this, and of what could be done, if every man were placed in the office for which he was fitted by nature and a proper education, which first suggested to me the plan of Illumination."
More In Government
- "I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it."― Alexander Woollcott
- "As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."― Marcus Tullius Cicero
- "I don’t have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed."― Sargent Shriver