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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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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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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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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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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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