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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.

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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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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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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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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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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
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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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Democracy Evil Majority One Pervaide Tyranny
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
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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Allies Always Cease Continue Mankind Passion Power Sure Threaten Unforeseen
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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