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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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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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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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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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Socialism means slavery.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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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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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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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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