Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
LORD ACTONFeudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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In every age its (liberty’s) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man’s craving for power, and the poor man’s craving for food
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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The possession of unlimited power corrodes the conscience, hardens the heart, and confounds the understanding.
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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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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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Great men are almost always bad men.
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There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Socialism means slavery.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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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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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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