History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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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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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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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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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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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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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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When the revolutionary theory of government began to prevail, and Church and State found that they were educating for opposite ends and in a contradictory spirit, it became necessary to remove children entirely from the influence of religion.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end…liberty is the only object which benefits all alike, and provokes no sincere opposition…
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