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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…

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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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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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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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