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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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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
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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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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together.
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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Great men are almost always bad men.
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The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
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Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities, that have prevailed by associating themselves with auxiliaries whose objects often differed from their own; and this association, which is always dangerous, has sometimes been disastrous.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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In every age its 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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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
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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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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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Socialism means slavery.
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The minority can seldom resist. But 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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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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