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

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Socialism means slavery.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.
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Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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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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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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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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