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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 the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
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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Burden Emancipation History Knowledge Obstacle Past Safest Surest
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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Attack Development Ignorance Mindedness Narrow Shaken Simple Thing Two
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Action Class Interest Men Particular Party Public Right
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Balance Look Perceive Truth
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Ablest Defender Error Failing Men Monstrous
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Argument Long Loser Sunset Use
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Democracy Evil Majority One Pervaide Tyranny
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Burden History Illumination Memories Soul
Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Aristocracy Contract Democracy Fanaticism Number Religious
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Habit Mind More Perilous Sanctifying Succes
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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Alike Almost Benefit Danger End Mne Object Particular Political

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