Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
LORD ACTONDemocracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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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.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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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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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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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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Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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