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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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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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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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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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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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