Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
LORD ACTON
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Socialism means slavery.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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