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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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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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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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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Socialism means slavery.
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