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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 is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
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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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Socialism means slavery.
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Mean Slavery Socialism
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Control Liberty Other Prevention
The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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