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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 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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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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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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Socialism means slavery.
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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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Absolute Appeal Appear People Redemption Refuge Treason
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
Official truth is not actual truth.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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