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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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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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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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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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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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