Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
LORD ACTONThe 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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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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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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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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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