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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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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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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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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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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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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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