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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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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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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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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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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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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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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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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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