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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 danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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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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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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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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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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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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