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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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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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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Before Generous Justice Mercy Temper
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Character Conduct Men Personality Sentiment
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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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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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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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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Enterprise Good Government Leave Many People Purpose Renounce
But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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