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

Lord Acton

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Character Conduct Men Personality Sentiment
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
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
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
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Alliances Dogma Fanaticism Passion Professes Religious
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Emna Excellent Good Government Higher Mean Political Reason Together
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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Gold Grainm Stream Knowledge Past Politics River Rivers Sand Science
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Ablest Defender Error Failing Men Monstrous
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Achievement Conscience Develop Great History Perfect
Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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Ago Bad Common Crime Good Ignorance Liberty Men Next Pretext Seed Sow Strong Year
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

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