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“What is the meaning of life? This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself”. –Julian Jaynes

“A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses”. –Honoré Mirabeau

“The government is best which makes itself unnecessary”. –Wilhelm von Humboldt

“A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism”. –Simon Bolivar

“To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious”. –Ernest Renan