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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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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Beautiful Business Funny Inspirational Money
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
There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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Enterprise Good Government Leave Many People Purpose Renounce
Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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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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