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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Socialism means slavery.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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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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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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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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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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