The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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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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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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