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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.

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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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