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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom

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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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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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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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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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