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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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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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