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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
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
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Argument Long Loser Sunset Use
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Age Circumstance Constant Moral Obedient Through
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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Bnaturem Check Central Democracy Government Limit Power Reserve Stage True
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Dagger Follow Future Men Past Strong Weak
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
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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Convulsion Evil Give Man Men Oppression Outbreak Pain Purpose Repeat Settle Violent
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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Above Congress Country Law Parliament Place
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
In every age its (liberty’s) 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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Ignorance Liberty Progress Strong Superstition Wisdom
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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Bank Century Down Issue People Sooner Swept
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other

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