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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.

Lord Acton

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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Benefit Class Higher Liberty Mean Men Political
. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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Century Civilization Delicate Free Mature Mean Nation Pass Resolve Scarcely Since Term
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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Aspiration Correspond Element Just Life Mankind Normal Principles Social
I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Beautiful Business Funny Inspirational Money
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Authority Exist Force Liberty
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
At 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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Associate Association Country Friend Minorities Person Racem People Sincere Themselves Time Triumph
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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Atheism Certain Geometry More Power Sin Theorem
Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Emna Excellent Good Government Higher Mean Political Reason Together
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Burden History Illumination Memories Soul
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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Account Country Ensalve Generous Powerful Spirit
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Socialism means slavery.
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Mean Slavery Socialism
When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Children Church Educate Entire Necessary Opposite Religion Remove State

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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