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

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Birth Directed Faith Giving Knowledge Piety Scruple Sometimes Superstition Wisdom
But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Liberty Minorities Security Test
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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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Accepting Deposition Execution Power Requires Socialism Strongest Sufficient
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Common Crime Deed Good Liberty Motive Next
The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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Bnaturem Check Central Democracy Government Limit Power Reserve Stage True
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Atheism Certain Geometry More Power Sin Theorem
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Balance Look Perceive Truth

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