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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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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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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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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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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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