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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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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Corrupt Great Men Power
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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Christian Murderous Principle Religion Style
In every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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Age Best Conquest Crave Enemies Every Food Ignorance Man Poor Progress
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Exercise Influence Men Power Tend
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
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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Majority Minorities Oppressed People Play Worse
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Liberty Minorities Security Test
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Best Book Content Delight Favorite Other Seek Sidelight
The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Common Democracy Morality Vice Vices
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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Democracies Force Fraud Majority Party Prevaiding Rule Succeed Tyranny
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty

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