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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.

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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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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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But when modern absolutism arose, it laid claim to everything on behalf of the sovereign power….
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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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 the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.
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The true guide of our conduct is no outward authority, but the voice of God, who comes down to dwell in our souls, who knows all our thoughts, to whom are owing all the truth we know, and all the good we do; for vice is voluntary, and virtue comes from the grace of the heavenly spirit within.
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