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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.

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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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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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