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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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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
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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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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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The principle of the Inquisition was murderous. . . . The popes were not only murderers in the great style, but they also made murder a legal basis of the Christian Church and a condition of salvation.
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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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Many men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen.
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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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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
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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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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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Socialism means slavery.
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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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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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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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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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It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
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The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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