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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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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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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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In every age its 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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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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