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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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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
In every age its 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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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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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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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
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 will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Make People Power Unjust Will
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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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