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

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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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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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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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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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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Accepting Deposition Execution Power Requires Socialism Strongest Sufficient
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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