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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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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
. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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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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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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