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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 true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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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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Associate Association Country Friend Minorities Person Racem People Sincere Themselves Time Triumph
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Convince Differ Honest Liar Men
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Country Friend Liberty Minorities People Time Triumph
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Character Correspondance Public Revelation Stood Utterance
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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Bundles Experience Master Philosophy Prejudice Understand
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Make People Power Unjust Will
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Argument Long Loser Sunset Use
Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Atheism Certain Geometry More Power Sin Theorem

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