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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…

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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Birth Directed Faith Giving Knowledge Piety Scruple Sometimes Superstition Wisdom
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Easier Find Fit Govern People Themselves
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Best Book Content Delight Favorite Other Seek Sidelight
When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Children Church Educate Entire Necessary Opposite Religion Remove State
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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Bnaturem Check Central Democracy Government Limit Power Reserve Stage True
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
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
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Case Made Possible Sure Thing Wrong
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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Burden Emancipation History Knowledge Obstacle Past Safest Surest
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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Constitution Country Institution Mother Powerful Product Result Revolution State
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Convince Differ Honest Liar Men
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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Majority Minorities Oppressed People Play Worse

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