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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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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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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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Alike Almost Benefit Danger End Mne Object Particular Political
When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Children Church Educate Entire Necessary Opposite Religion Remove State
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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Assign Best Central Club Democracy Federalism Government Power
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Exercise Influence Men Power Tend
When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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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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The mills of God grind slowly.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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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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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation History Penalties Provide Suffering
The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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Allies Always Cease Continue Mankind Passion Power Sure Threaten Unforeseen

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