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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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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Convince Differ Honest Liar Men
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Exercise Influence Men Power Tend
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
Great men are almost always bad men.
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Corrupt Great Men Power
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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Account Country Ensalve Generous Powerful Spirit
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
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Alliances Dogma Fanaticism Passion Professes Religious
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Best Book Content Delight Favorite Other Seek Sidelight
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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Absolute Corrupt Other Power Presumption Tend
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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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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