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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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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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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in gover...more

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

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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

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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