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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

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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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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
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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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Both Future Live Past
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
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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Assign Best Central Club Democracy Federalism Government Power
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Burden History Illumination Memories Soul
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Disputes Document Evasion History Opinion Stand
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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Action Class Interest Men Particular Party Public Right
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Age Circumstance Constant Moral Obedient Through
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Atheism Certain Geometry More Power Sin Theorem
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Constitution Country Institution Mother Powerful Product Result Revolution State
Socialism means slavery.
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Mean Slavery Socialism

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