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But of all the things which I have mentioned that which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form...more

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When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the law...more

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We shall learn the qualities of governments in the same way as we learn the qualities of individuals, since they are revealed in their deliberate acts...more

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

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Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

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Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. &It is also in th...more

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of governmen...more

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be a...more

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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who ...more

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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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Education is the best provision for old age.

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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There are three kinds of constitution, and an equal number of deviation-forms--perversions, as it were, of them. The constitutions are monarchy, arist...more