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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

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Concentration Control Frequently Hand Men Mentality Peace Power Remember
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Freedom Higher Highest Liberty Mean Politics Wisdom
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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Convulsion Evil Give Man Men Oppression Outbreak Pain Purpose Repeat Settle Violent
The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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Allies Always Cease Continue Mankind Passion Power Sure Threaten Unforeseen
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
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Country Friend Liberty Minorities People Time Triumph
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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