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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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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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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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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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Emna Excellent Good Government Higher Mean Political Reason Together
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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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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