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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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