Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
LORD ACTONFrom the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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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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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they do no wrong.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.
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