Official truth is not actual truth.
LORD ACTONA convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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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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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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