History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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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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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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