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Progress, the religion of those who have none.

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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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A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.
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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
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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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Socialism means slavery.
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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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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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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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Official truth is not actual truth.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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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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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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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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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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