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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.

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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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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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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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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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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.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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