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We are all human, and all do wrong.

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Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.
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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.
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Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving to the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.
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Christ, in the parable of the vine dressers, has taught us a sublime lesson of justice, by showing that to the things which are not our own, we can have no just claim.
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The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals.
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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
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Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.
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There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.
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The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.
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