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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.

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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Before Generous Justice Mercy Temper
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
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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Benefit Class Higher Liberty Mean Men Political
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
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
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
Great men are almost always bad men.
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Corrupt Great Men Power
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Dignity Giving History Merit Truth Worth
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
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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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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Anxiety Generous Morning Nothing Today Paper
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Character Correspondance Public Revelation Stood Utterance
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
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
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
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
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
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
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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