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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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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Absolute Appear Entire Minority People Redemption Resist Seldom Treason
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Easier Find Fit Govern People Themselves
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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Finest Freedom Hope Middle Opportunity Passion Quality World
Socialism means slavery.
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Mean Slavery Socialism
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Bundles Experience Master Philosophy Prejudice Understand
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
Official truth is not actual truth.
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Actually Official Truth
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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Associate Association Country Friend Minorities Person Racem People Sincere Themselves Time Triumph
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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