Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
LORD ACTONPolitical differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Socialism means slavery.
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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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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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