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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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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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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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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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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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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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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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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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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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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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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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