Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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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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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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