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When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.

Lord Acton

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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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Socialism means slavery.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
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Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
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Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
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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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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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I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
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Official truth is not actual truth.
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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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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 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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The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, Pascal, Cromwell, Bossuet, Montesquieu, Jefferson, Napoleon, Pitt, etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Error.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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The passion for power over others can never cease to threaten mankind, and is always sure of finding new and unforseen allies in continuing its martyrology.
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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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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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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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