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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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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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