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The 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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Element First Freedom People Private Property
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Both Different Fool Last Once Person Same Time Wise
Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Case Made Possible Sure Thing Wrong
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Burden History Illumination Memories Soul
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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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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Associate Association Country Friend Minorities Person Racem People Sincere Themselves Time Triumph
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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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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