Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
LORD ACTONThe 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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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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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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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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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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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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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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