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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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. 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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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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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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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