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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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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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