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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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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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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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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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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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