Great men are almost always bad men.
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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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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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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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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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 minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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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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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 means slavery.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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