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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Lord Acton

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
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Constitution Country Institution Mother Powerful Product Result Revolution State
Every class is unfit to govern.
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Class Unfit
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
. It is the delicate fruit of a mature civilization; and scarcely a century has passed since nations, that knew the meaning of the term, resolved to be free.
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Century Civilization Delicate Free Mature Mean Nation Pass Resolve Scarcely Since Term
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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Enterprise Good Government Leave Many People Purpose Renounce
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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Gold Grainm Stream Knowledge Past Politics River Rivers Sand Science
At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Country Friend Liberty Minorities People Time Triumph
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learn Much Raed Reading Spiritual Writing
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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Ignorance Liberty Progress Strong Superstition Wisdom
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Authority Essential Limitation
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
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Express Feeling Ink Inverted Real
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Character Conduct Men Personality Sentiment
Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Alliances Dogma Fanaticism Passion Professes Religious
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Liberty Minorities Security Test

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

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