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.
LORD ACTONHistory, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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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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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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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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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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