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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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 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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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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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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