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• It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

• Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

• Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

• The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

Wikipedia: Lord Acton

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