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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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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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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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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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Socialism means slavery.
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