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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

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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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The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.
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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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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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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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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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In every age its (liberty's) 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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The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.
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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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