It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
LORD ACTONThe true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Socialism means slavery.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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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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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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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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Every class is unfit to govern.
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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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