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Under our system there is a remedy for all mere political evils in the sound sense and sober judgment of the people.
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By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one.
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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 American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
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Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.
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Can authority be more amiable and respectable when it descends from accidents or institutions established in remote antiquity than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people?
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It is their power and majesty that is reflected, and only for their good, in every legitimate government, under whatever form it may appear.
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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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No body can give more power than he has himself; and he that cannot take away his own life, cannot give another power over it.
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
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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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It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.
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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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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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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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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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One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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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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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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Even the commonest men reserve the violent, the sulky, the undisguisedly selfish side of their character for those who have no power to withstand it.