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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Habit Mind More Perilous Sanctifying Succes
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
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
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
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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Bnaturem Check Central Democracy Government Limit Power Reserve Stage True
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Character Conduct Men Personality Sentiment
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Make People Power Unjust Will
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
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Democracy Evil Majority One Pervaide Tyranny
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Easier Find Fit Govern People Themselves

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