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

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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Convulsion Evil Give Man Men Oppression Outbreak Pain Purpose Repeat Settle Violent
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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Bank Century Down Issue People Sooner Swept
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Best Book Content Delight Favorite Other Seek Sidelight
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
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
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Both Different Fool Last Once Person Same Time Wise
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Liberty Minorities Security Test
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
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Balance Look Perceive Truth
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
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
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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Attack Development Ignorance Mindedness Narrow Shaken Simple Thing Two
Official truth is not actual truth.
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Actually Official Truth
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

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