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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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