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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
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
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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Absolute Appear Entire Minority People Redemption Resist Seldom Treason
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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Bank Century Down Issue People Sooner Swept
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
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Disputes Document Evasion History Opinion Stand
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Exercise Influence Men Power Tend
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Alliances Dogma Fanaticism Passion Professes Religious
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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Associate Association Country Friend Minorities Person Racem People Sincere Themselves Time Triumph
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
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
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Common Crime Deed Good Liberty Motive Next
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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