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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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