Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
LORD ACTONSocialism means slavery.
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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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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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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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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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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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Every class is unfit to govern.
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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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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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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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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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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