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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…

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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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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
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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Absolute Appear Entire Minority People Redemption Resist Seldom Treason
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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Children Church Educate Entire Necessary Opposite Religion Remove State
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Case Made Possible Sure Thing Wrong
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
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
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 finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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Art Criminal Despot Die Emancipate Excuse Last Nation Preacher Reformer

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