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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

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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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Emna Excellent Good Government Higher Mean Political Reason Together
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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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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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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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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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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Absolute Corrupt Other Power Presumption Tend

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