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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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Socialism means slavery.
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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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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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The wisdom of divine rule appears not in the perfection but in the improvement of the world... History is the true demonstration of Religion.
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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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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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The idea that the object of constitutions is not to confirm the predominance of any interest, but to prevent it to preserve with equal care the independence of labour and the security of property to make the rich safe against envy, and the poor against oppression, marks the highest level attained by the statesmanship of Greece.
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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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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. If there is any presumption, it is the other way against holders of power...power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.
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The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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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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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.
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