Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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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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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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