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A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.

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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime,…
A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during…
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth,…
The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there…
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose…
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government,…
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons…
[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

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