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Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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Administration Different Discussion Justice Political Publicity Reality
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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Absolutism Attempt Century Children Discover Function Government Modern Opposite State
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.
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Alike Almost Benefit Danger End Mne Object Particular Political
A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom
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Element First Freedom People Private Property
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Argument Long Loser Sunset Use
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
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Corrupt Holder Office Political Power
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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Accept Do Favorable Judge King Men Pope Power Presumption Unlike Wrong
No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.
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Character Correspondance Public Revelation Stood Utterance
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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Account Country Ensalve Generous Powerful Spirit
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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None Progress Religion
Great men are almost always bad men.
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Corrupt Great Men Power
Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority…
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Almost Always Exercise Influence Men Power
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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End Higher Liberty Mean Political
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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Bundles Experience Master Philosophy Prejudice Understand
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.
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Character Conduct Men Personality Sentiment

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