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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Actually Official Truth
Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Democracy Evil Majority One Pervaide Tyranny
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Convince Differ Honest Liar Men
The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Common Democracy Morality Vice Vices
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
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Age Circumstance Constant Moral Obedient Through
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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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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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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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time
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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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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. 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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Balance Look Perceive Truth

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