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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

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Authority Essential Limitation

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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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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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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
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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Democracies Force Fraud Majority Party Prevaiding Rule Succeed Tyranny
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty

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