When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
LORD ACTONBefore God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power — power sufficient to interfere with property.
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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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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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Socialism means slavery.
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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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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.
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Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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