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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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Finest Freedom Hope Middle Opportunity Passion Quality World
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Dignity Giving History Merit Truth Worth
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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Convulsion Evil Give Man Men Oppression Outbreak Pain Purpose Repeat Settle Violent
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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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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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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Assign Best Central Club Democracy Federalism Government Power

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