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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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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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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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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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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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 is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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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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