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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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Account Country Ensalve Generous Powerful Spirit
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Alliances Dogma Fanaticism Passion Professes Religious
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
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
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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Democracies Force Fraud Majority Party Prevaiding Rule Succeed Tyranny
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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Above Congress Country Law Parliament Place
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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Concentration Control Frequently Hand Men Mentality Peace Power Remember
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Atheism Confound Heart Possession Ultimate Understanding
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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Ago Bad Common Crime Good Ignorance Liberty Men Next Pretext Seed Sow Strong Year

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