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In 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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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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Future Government Literature Present Rule
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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Associate Association Country Friend Minorities Person Racem People Sincere Themselves Time Triumph
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Age Circumstance Constant Moral Obedient Through
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Convince Differ Honest Liar Men
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Make People Power Unjust Will
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Bundles Experience Master Philosophy Prejudice Understand
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Before Generous Justice Mercy Temper
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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Children Church Educate Entire Necessary Opposite Religion Remove State
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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Benefit Class Higher Liberty Mean Men Political
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
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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Finest Freedom Hope Middle Opportunity Passion Quality World
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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Anxiety Generous Morning Nothing Today Paper

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