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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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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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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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At all times sincere friends of freedom have been rare, and its triumphs have been due to minorities.
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A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.
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Before men can find peace and harmony within themselves they must first fall in love with their country.
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Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.
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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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Though oppression may give rise to violent and repeated outbreaks, like the convulsions of a man in pain, it cannot mature a settled purpose and plan of regeneration, unless a new notion of happiness is joined to the sense of present evil.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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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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Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
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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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It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
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The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.
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Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
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