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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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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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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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In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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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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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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