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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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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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