Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
LORD ACTONMoral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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, 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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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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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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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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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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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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