The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
LORD ACTONLiberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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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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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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In every age its 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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