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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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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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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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