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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.

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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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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
From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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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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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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