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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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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
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
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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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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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
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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Associate Association Country Friend Minorities Person Racem People Sincere Themselves Time Triumph
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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