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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

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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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By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes to be his duty against the influences of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
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The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.
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The true natural check on absolute democracy is the federal system, which limits the central government by the powers reserved, and the state governments by the powers they have ceded.
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Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for the security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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A government does not desire its powers to be strictly defined, but the subjects require the line to be drawn with increasing precision.
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Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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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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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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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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It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
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The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.
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