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In every age its (liberty’s) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food

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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
In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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Age Best Conquest Crave Enemies Every Food Ignorance Man Poor Progress
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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Actually Official Truth
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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
. 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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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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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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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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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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