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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for 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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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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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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The mills of God grind slowly.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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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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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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