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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.

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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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Absolute Appear Entire Minority People Redemption Resist Seldom Treason
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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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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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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