Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
LORD ACTON
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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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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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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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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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