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— Lord Acton"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority."
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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