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La corruption de chaque gouvernement commence presque toujours par celle des principes. The deterioration of a government begins almost always by the decay of its principles. MONTESQUIEU-De l'Esprit. VIII. Ch. I.

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Les républiques finissent par le luxe; les monarchies, par la pauvreté.

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.

MONTESQUIEU-De l'Esprit. VII. Ch. IV.

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Nescis, mi fili, quantilla sapientia regitur mundus.

Learn, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed. Attributed to AXEL VON OXENSTIERNA. BÜCHMANN-Geflügelte Wörte, attributes it as likely to POPE JULIUS III, also to ORSELAER, tutor to the sons of a Markgraf of Baden. LORD CHATHAM claims it for POPE ALEXANDER VI, JULES OF LEO, in Letter to LORD SHELBURNE, Jan. 25, 1775. CONRAD VON BENNINGTON, Dutch Statesman, also given credit. Quoted by DR. ARBUTHNOT Letter to Swift, 1732-3.

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(See also BEHN, SELDEN)

There is what I call the American idea. This idea demands, as the proximate organizaation thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

THEODORE PARKER-Speech at the N. E. AntiSlavery Convention. Boston, May 29, 1850.

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First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation

THEODORE PARKER-Speech in Boston. May 31, 1854.

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Democracy is direct self-government, over all the people, for all the people, by all the people. THEODORE PARKER. Sermon. Delivered at Music Hall, Boston, July 4, 1858. On the Effect of Slavery on the American People. P. 5. (Read and underlined by Lincoln.)

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Slavery is in flagrant violation of the institutions of America-direct government-over all the people, by all the people, for all the people. THEODORE PARKER. Sermon. Delivered at Music Hall, Boston. July 4, 1858. P. 14. (Read and underlined by Lincoln.) (See also LINCOLN)

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