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

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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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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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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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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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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime, from the sowing of the seed at Athens, 2,460 years ago, until the ripened harvest was gathered by men of our race
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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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