- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Means
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- Nov 07, 2020
Socialism means slavery.
- Danger
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
- Absolute Power Corrupts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
- Creeds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
- Burden
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
- Liberty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
- Grains
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020