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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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