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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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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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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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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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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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Bundles Experience Master Philosophy Prejudice Understand
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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Associate Association Country Friend Minorities Person Racem People Sincere Themselves Time Triumph
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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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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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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