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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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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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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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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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