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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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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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. 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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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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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