History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
LORD ACTONThere should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest 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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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Socialism means slavery.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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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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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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