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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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Though 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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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 will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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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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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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