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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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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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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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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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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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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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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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