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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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