Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
LORD ACTONAt 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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Socialism means slavery.
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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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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 every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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