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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….

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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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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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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Socialism means slavery.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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