Every class is unfit to govern.
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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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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