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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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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Democracies Force Fraud Majority Party Prevaiding Rule Succeed Tyranny
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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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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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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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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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Accepting Deposition Execution Power Requires Socialism Strongest Sufficient

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