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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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Century Civilization Delicate Free Mature Mean Nation Pass Resolve Scarcely Since Term
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
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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Burden Emancipation History Knowledge Obstacle Past Safest Surest
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Birth Directed Faith Giving Knowledge Piety Scruple Sometimes Superstition Wisdom
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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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Aristocracy Contract Democracy Fanaticism Number Religious
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Freedom Higher Highest Liberty Mean Politics Wisdom
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Atheism Certain Geometry More Power Sin Theorem
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Exercise Influence Men Power Tend
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Democracy Evil Majority One Pervaide Tyranny
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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All Birth Children Citizen Country Free God Good Master Men Neither Poor Salve

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