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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Action Class Interest Men Particular Party Public Right
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Character Conduct Men Personality Sentiment
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Both Future Live Past
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Character Correspondance Public Revelation Stood Utterance
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
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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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Disputes Document Evasion History Opinion Stand
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Case Made Possible Sure Thing Wrong
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
Official truth is not actual truth.
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Actually Official Truth

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