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

We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Aristocracy Contract Democracy Fanaticism Number Religious
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Common Crime Deed Good Liberty Motive Next
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Concentration Control Frequently Hand Men Mentality Peace Power Remember
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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Control Liberty Other Prevention
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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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
Great men are almost always bad men.
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Corrupt Great Men Power
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Before Generous Justice Mercy Temper
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
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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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Country Friend Liberty Minorities People Time Triumph

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