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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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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right

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

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
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Make People Power Unjust Will
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
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Convince Differ Honest Liar Men
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Almost Always Exercise Influence Men Power
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Bundles Experience Master Philosophy Prejudice Understand
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
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Constitution Country Institution Mother Powerful Product Result Revolution State
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Character Correspondance Public Revelation Stood Utterance
When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Children Church Educate Entire Necessary Opposite Religion Remove State
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

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