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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

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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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Achievement Conscience Develop Great History Perfect
Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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Case Made Possible Sure Thing Wrong
In every age its (liberty’s) 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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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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Assign Best Central Club Democracy Federalism Government Power
But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Both Different Fool Last Once Person Same Time Wise
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Atheism Certain Geometry More Power Sin Theorem
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Common Democracy Morality Vice Vices
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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