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LORD ACTONPower tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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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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