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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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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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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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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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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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