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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Before Generous Justice Mercy Temper
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Atheism Confound Heart Possession Ultimate Understanding
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Burden History Illumination Memories Soul
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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Bank Century Down Issue People Sooner Swept
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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In every age its 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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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Habit Mind More Perilous Sanctifying Succes
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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