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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.

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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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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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In every age its (liberty’s) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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