Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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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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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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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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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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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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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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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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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