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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

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

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Bad Easily Good Made Men State
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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Always Corruption Despotic Morality Power
And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Best Book Content Delight Favorite Other Seek Sidelight
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
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Concentration Democracy Generally Monopolize Power
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Differences Disagreement Essential Moral Political Principles
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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Bad Majority Minority Oppress
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
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Bank Century Down Issue People Sooner Swept
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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Balance Look Perceive Truth
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
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Besides Law Own People Will
The mills of God grind slowly.
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Exactness God Grind Mill Retribution
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play.
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Majority Minorities Oppressed People Play Worse
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
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Begining Come End Hardly Task Time
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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