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

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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