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There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

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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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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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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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The few have not strength to achieve great changes unaided the many have not wisdom to be moved by truth unmixed.
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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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Liberty, next to religion has been the motive of good deeds and the common pretext of crime.
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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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History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
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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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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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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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Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty.
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It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
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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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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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When the last of the Reformers died, religion, instead of emancipating the nations, had become an excuse for the criminal art of despots. Calvin preached, and Bellarmine lectured but Machiavelli reigned.
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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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