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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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Associate Association Country Friend Minorities Person Racem People Sincere Themselves Time Triumph
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
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Easier Find Fit Govern People Themselves
If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Other Power Presumption Tend
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Aristocracy Contract Democracy Fanaticism Number Religious
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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Assign Best Central Club Democracy Federalism Government Power
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Before Generous Justice Mercy Temper
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Accepting Deposition Execution Power Requires Socialism Strongest Sufficient
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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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
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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Democracies Force Fraud Majority Party Prevaiding Rule Succeed Tyranny

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