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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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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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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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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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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a 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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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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