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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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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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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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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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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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