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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
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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Accept Do Favorable Judge King Men Pope Power Presumption Unlike Wrong
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Make People Power Unjust Will
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Country Friend Liberty Minorities People Time Triumph
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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Assign Best Central Club Democracy Federalism Government Power
Official truth is not actual truth.
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Actually Official Truth
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Ablest Defender Error Failing Men Monstrous
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time
A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Action Class Interest Men Particular Party Public Right

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