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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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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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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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