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In every age its (liberty’s) 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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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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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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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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In every age its (liberty’s) 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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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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