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

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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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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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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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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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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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