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

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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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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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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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