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

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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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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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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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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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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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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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