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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Emna Excellent Good Government Higher Mean Political Reason Together
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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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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Freedom Higher Highest Liberty Mean Politics Wisdom
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
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Account Country Ensalve Generous Powerful Spirit
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
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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Absolute Appear Entire Minority People Redemption Resist Seldom Treason
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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Bank Century Down Issue People Sooner Swept
We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
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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The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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