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Melancholy is the condition of that people whose government can be sustained only by a system which periodically transfers large amounts from the labor of the many to the coffers of the few.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.
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The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.
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The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.
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Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.
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We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.
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Want of a common judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon a man's person, makes a state of war
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Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's harm
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For he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced of the contrary.
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Our constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
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it is nevertheless often true that one man's vulgarity is another's lyric
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Surely the State has no right to cleanse public debate to the point where it is grammatically palatable to the most squeamish among us.
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Any broader view of this authority would effectively empower a majority to silence dissidents simply as a matter of personal predilections.
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The endorsement of that position by the majority of this Court can only lend credence to the most cynical appraisal of the work of judges throughout the land.
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Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear.
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It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Only an unmitigated despotism demands that the individual citizen shall obey unconditionally every mandate of persons in authority.
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A good despotism is an altogether false ideal, which practically (except as a means to some temporary purpose) becomes the most senseless and dangerous of chimeras.
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The interest of the people is that there should be full liberty of censure on every public officer, and on every public act or measure.
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
John Stuart Millverified·Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St Andrews·February 1, 1867
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A Sultan's favourite slave has slaves under her, over whom she tyrannizes; but the desirable thing would be that she should neither have slaves nor be a slave.
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If ever any system of privilege and enforced subjection had its yoke tightly riveted on the necks of those who are kept down by it, this has.
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The subjection of women to men being a universal custom, any departure from it quite naturally appears unnatural.
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Her power often gives her what she has no right to, but does not enable her to assert her own rights.