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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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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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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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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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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Socialism means slavery.
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