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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Corrupt Inspirational Leadership Power Trend Work
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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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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Emna Excellent Good Government Higher Mean Political Reason Together
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
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
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Benefit Class Higher Liberty Mean Men Political
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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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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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
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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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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