The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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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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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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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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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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