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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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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Balance Look Perceive Truth
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Character Correspondance Public Revelation Stood Utterance
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
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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Accept Do Favorable Judge King Men Pope Power Presumption Unlike Wrong
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
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
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
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
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time
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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Bnaturem Check Central Democracy Government Limit Power Reserve Stage True
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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Gold Grainm Stream Knowledge Past Politics River Rivers Sand Science
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
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
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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Constitution Country Institution Mother Powerful Product Result Revolution State
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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Assign Best Central Club Democracy Federalism Government Power
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Common Crime Deed Good Liberty Motive Next
Socialism means slavery.
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Mean Slavery Socialism
. 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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Century Civilization Delicate Free Mature Mean Nation Pass Resolve Scarcely Since Term
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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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Birth Directed Faith Giving Knowledge Piety Scruple Sometimes Superstition Wisdom
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Dignity Giving History Merit Truth Worth
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Case Made Possible Sure Thing Wrong
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Corrupt Inspirational Leadership Power Trend Work
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

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