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Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton |

Prudence which degenerates into timidity is very seldom the path to safety.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Viscount Cecil |

Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Vicomte De Chateaubriand |

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Anonymous |

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Thomas Jefferson |