Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
LORD ACTONOpinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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The 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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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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