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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

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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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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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