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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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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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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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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 one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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In every age its (liberty’s) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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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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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Every class is unfit to govern.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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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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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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