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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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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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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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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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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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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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