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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.

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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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Democracies Force Fraud Majority Party Prevaiding Rule Succeed Tyranny
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Ablest Defender Error Failing Men Monstrous
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Burden History Illumination Memories Soul
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
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
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Case Made Possible Sure Thing Wrong
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Common Crime Deed Good Liberty Motive Next
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
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Dignity Giving History Merit Truth Worth
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Country Friend Liberty Minorities People Time Triumph
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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Change Creed Eternity Fail Fall Law Manner Moral Opinion Table Tablet
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Almost Always Authority Great Influence Men Stillmore
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

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