From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
LORD ACTONThe science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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