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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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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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