There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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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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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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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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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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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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