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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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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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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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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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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