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Many things are better for silence than for speech: others are better for speech than for stationery.

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To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of 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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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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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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Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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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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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.
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From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.
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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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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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We are not sure we are right until we have made the best case possible for those who are wrong.
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Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.
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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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