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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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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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Both Future Live Past
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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In every age its 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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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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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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Ignorance Liberty Progress Strong Superstition Wisdom

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