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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race

Lord Acton

Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Before Generous Justice Mercy Temper
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
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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Anxiety Generous Morning Nothing Today Paper
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Achievement Conscience Develop Great History Perfect
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Beautiful Business Funny Inspirational Money
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Both Future Live Past
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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Gold Grainm Stream Knowledge Past Politics River Rivers Sand Science
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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Age Best Conquest Crave Enemies Every Food Ignorance Man Poor Progress
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Age Circumstance Constant Moral Obedient Through
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles

Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race

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