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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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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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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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