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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

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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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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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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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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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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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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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Socialism means slavery.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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