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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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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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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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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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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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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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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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