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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.

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

There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Beautiful Business Funny Inspirational Money
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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Bnaturem Check Central Democracy Government Limit Power Reserve Stage True
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
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
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
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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All Birth Children Citizen Country Free God Good Master Men Neither Poor Salve
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Exercise Influence Men Power Tend
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest 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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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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