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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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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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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Socialism means slavery.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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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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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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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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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 one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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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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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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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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