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

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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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 one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.
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