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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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