There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
LORD ACTONThough oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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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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Socialism means slavery.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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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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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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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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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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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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