Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
LORD ACTONIn every age its progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food.
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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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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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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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