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Great men are almost always bad men.

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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Case Made Possible Sure Thing Wrong
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Easier Find Fit Govern People Themselves
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Accepting Deposition Execution Power Requires Socialism Strongest Sufficient
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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Gold Grainm Stream Knowledge Past Politics River Rivers Sand Science
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Freedom Higher Highest Liberty Mean Politics Wisdom
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Dagger Follow Future Men Past Strong Weak
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Clas Class Danger Every Govern Particular Unfit
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Birth Directed Faith Giving Knowledge Piety Scruple Sometimes Superstition Wisdom
For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
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 Enemy Friend Fruit Liberty Socialism Victory

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