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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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