At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
LORD ACTONAnd 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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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are 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 long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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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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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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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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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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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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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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