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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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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men.
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