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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.

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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
Great men are almost always bad men.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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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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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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