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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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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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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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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Socialism means slavery.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for 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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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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