Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.

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Lord Acton

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221 The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
259 Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
228 Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
221 The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
861 The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

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