History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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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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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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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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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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