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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

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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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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
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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Assign Best Central Club Democracy Federalism Government Power
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Character Correspondance Public Revelation Stood Utterance
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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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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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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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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