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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Country Friend Liberty Minorities People Time Triumph
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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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 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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Democracies Force Fraud Majority Party Prevaiding Rule Succeed Tyranny
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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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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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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In every age its (liberty’s) 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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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Socialism means slavery.
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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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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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