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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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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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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Character Correspondance Public Revelation Stood Utterance
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Almost Always Exercise Influence Men Power
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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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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