"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action."
"Despotism accomplishes great things illegally; liberty doesn't even go to the trouble of accomplishing small things legally."
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Source: Le catéchisme social by Honore de Balzac, Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, (p. 137), 1933.
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