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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.

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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Age Circumstance Constant Moral Obedient Through
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
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Argument Long Loser Sunset Use
Great men are almost always bad men.
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Corrupt Great Men Power
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 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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Christian Murderous Principle Religion Style
There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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Enterprise Good Government Leave Many People Purpose Renounce
Socialism means slavery.
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Mean Slavery Socialism
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
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Both Future Live Past
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
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
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power

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