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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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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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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In every age its (liberty’s) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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