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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.

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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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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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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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