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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Every error pronounces judgment on itself when it attempts to apply its rules to the standard of truth.
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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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The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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