A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
LORD ACTONPolitical differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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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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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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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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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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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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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Socialism means slavery.
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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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