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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Emna Excellent Good Government Higher Mean Political Reason Together
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Freedom Higher Highest Liberty Mean Politics Wisdom
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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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
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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Socialism means slavery.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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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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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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