Never be surprised at the crumbling of an idol or the disclosure of a skeleton
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In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for foodJohn Emerich
Power tends to corrupt absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Two forces which are the worst enemies of civil freedom are the absolute monarchy and the revolution
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority but still more when they are super bad and add the tendency of the certainty of corruption of authority.
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