The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
LORD ACTONFeudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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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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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured; but Machiavelli reigned.
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If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power…power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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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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For centuries it was never discovered that education was a function of the State, and the State never attempted to educate.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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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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. 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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There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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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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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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The mills of God grind slowly.
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