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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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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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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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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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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 the prevention of control by others.
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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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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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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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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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