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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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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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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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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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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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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Socialism means slavery.
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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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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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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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