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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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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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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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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