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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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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 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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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