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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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I’m not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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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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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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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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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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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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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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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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