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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.

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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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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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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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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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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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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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