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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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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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Socialism means slavery.
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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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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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