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.
LORD ACTONAt 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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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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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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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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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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