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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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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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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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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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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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 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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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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