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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

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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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Both Different Fool Last Once Person Same Time Wise
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Achievement Conscience Develop Great History Perfect
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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Benefit Class Higher Liberty Mean Men Political
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Burden Emancipation History Knowledge Obstacle Past Safest Surest
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Dignity Giving History Merit Truth Worth
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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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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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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Convulsion Evil Give Man Men Oppression Outbreak Pain Purpose Repeat Settle Violent
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power

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