It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
LORD ACTONThe minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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In every age its (liberty’s) 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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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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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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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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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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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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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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