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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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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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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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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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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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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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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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In every age its (liberty’s) 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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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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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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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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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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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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Every class is unfit to govern.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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