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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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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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Character Judging Talent Worst
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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Almost Always Authority Great Influence Men Stillmore
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Freedom Higher Highest Liberty Mean Politics Wisdom
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
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
False principles, which correspond with the bad as well as with the just aspirations of mankind, are a normal and necessary element in the social life of nations.
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Aspiration Correspond Element Just Life Mankind Normal Principles Social
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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Habit Mind More Perilous Sanctifying Succes
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Almost Always Exercise Influence Men Power
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
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Doe End Justify Mean Other
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Dignity Giving History Merit Truth Worth
If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Absolute Corrupt Other Power Presumption Tend
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Absolutism Behalf Claim Everything Laid Modern Power Sovereign
Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Burden History Illumination Memories Soul
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time

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