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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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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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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