For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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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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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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