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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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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
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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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 strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Burden Emancipation History Knowledge Obstacle Past Safest Surest
Socialism means slavery.
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Mean Slavery Socialism
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
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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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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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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