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Progress, the religion of those who have none.

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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Easier Find Fit Govern People Themselves
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
Official truth is not actual truth.
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Actually Official Truth
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
But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Common Crime Deed Good Liberty Motive Next
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Disputes Document Evasion History Opinion Stand
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Action Class Interest Men Particular Party Public Right
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
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
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Atheism Certain Geometry More Power Sin Theorem

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