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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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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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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
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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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Before Generous Justice Mercy Temper
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
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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Accept Do Favorable Judge King Men Pope Power Presumption Unlike Wrong
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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All Birth Children Citizen Country Free God Good Master Men Neither Poor Salve
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Birth Directed Faith Giving Knowledge Piety Scruple Sometimes Superstition Wisdom
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Democracy Evil Majority One Pervaide Tyranny
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
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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