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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Corrupt Great Men Power
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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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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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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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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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Accepting Deposition Execution Power Requires Socialism Strongest Sufficient
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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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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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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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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In every age its 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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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