Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
LORD ACTONA 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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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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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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. 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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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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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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