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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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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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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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