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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…

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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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