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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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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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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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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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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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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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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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