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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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Socialism means slavery.
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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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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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The mills of God grind slowly.
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Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
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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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The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Progress, the religion of those who have none.
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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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The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
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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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Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
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The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
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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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Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power of the majority.
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The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
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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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A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
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