Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
LORD ACTONDo not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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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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