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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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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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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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