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Great men are almost always bad men.

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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Before Generous Justice Mercy Temper
Official truth is not actual truth.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Constitution Country Institution Mother Powerful Product Result Revolution State
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Freedom Higher Highest Liberty Mean Politics Wisdom
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
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Emna Excellent Good Government Higher Mean Political Reason Together
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 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
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Bundles Experience Master Philosophy Prejudice Understand
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
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Character Conduct Men Personality Sentiment
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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