The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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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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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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