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morality corruption
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
truth-is officials
Official truth is not actual truth.
liars men honest
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
mean government political
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
age moral circumstances
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
people unjust
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
liberty prevention
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
government democracy social
The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.
minorities association triumph
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.
kings men judging
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.
passion alliances dogma
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
mean men class
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition...The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern ... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
enemy victory liberty
Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
justice liberty able
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.