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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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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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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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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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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Feudalism Land Made Master Measure Real

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