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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

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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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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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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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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