Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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