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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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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 is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Able Being Do Liberty Ought Power Right
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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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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Accepting Deposition Execution Power Requires Socialism Strongest Sufficient
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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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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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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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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Bank Century Down Issue People Sooner Swept
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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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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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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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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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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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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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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