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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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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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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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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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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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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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Socialism means slavery.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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