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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
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Socialism means slavery.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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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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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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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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