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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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Benefit Class Higher Liberty Mean Men Political
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Age Circumstance Constant Moral Obedient Through
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
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Almost Always Authority Great Influence Men Stillmore
. 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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Country Friend Liberty Minorities People Time Triumph
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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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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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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