Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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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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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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