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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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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Anxiety Generous Morning Nothing Today Paper
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Dagger Follow Future Men Past Strong Weak
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Achievement Conscience Develop Great History Perfect
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Balance Look Perceive Truth
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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Bank Century Down Issue People Sooner Swept
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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Come Conduct Down God Grace Guide Know Our Outward Soul Voice
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
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
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Burden History Illumination Memories Soul
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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