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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.

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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
In every age its 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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Age Best Conquest Crave Enemies Every Food Ignorance Man Poor Progress
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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Anxiety Generous Morning Nothing Today Paper
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Bundles Experience Master Philosophy Prejudice Understand
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
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
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Achievement Conscience Develop Great History Perfect
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Exercise Influence Men Power Tend
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Habit Mind More Perilous Sanctifying Succes
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
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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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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