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Socialism means slavery.
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Government
Slavery
Socialism
Means
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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Learning
Reading
Writing
Much
Learn
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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
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Liberty
Prevention
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The greatest men, you can quote for everything.
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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Power
Absolute Power
Power Corrupts
Absolute
Power Power Corrupts Corrupts
Absolute Power Corrupts
Corrupt
Corrupts
Tends
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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
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Term
Used
Versus
Short
Losers
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
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History
Burden
Illumination
Soul
Memory
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History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
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Compensation
Penalties
Suffering
Neither
Nor
Provides
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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
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Life
Able
Past
Past Life
Satisfaction
Twice
Back
Look
Life Look Past
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Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
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Freedom
Liberty
Ought
Like
Doing
Right
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There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
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Defenders
Monstrous
Among
Error
Fails
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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Content
Seek
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Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
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Freedom
Higher
Liberty
Political
Itself
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The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.
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Government
Class
Danger
Particular
Govern
Unfit
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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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Greek
Nature World Nothing
Wild
Origin
Save
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A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
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Wise
Different Times
Fool
Wise Person
Both
Last
Same Thing
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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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Smile
Alms
Eye
Handshake
Soul
Beg
Either
Fond
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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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Business
Artist
Beautiful Things
Businessman
Driven
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Creeds
Eternity
Fall
Manners
Moral
Written
Rise
Alter
Opinions
Table
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If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
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Burden
Emancipation
Obstacle
Safest
Surest
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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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Morning
Catastrophe
Paper
Sigh
Void
Morning Great Today
Announced
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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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Amount
Certain
Enjoyed
Minorities
Security
Free
Judge
Test
Whether
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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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Sooner Or Later
Versus
Banks
People Will Down
Sooner
Centuries
Fought
Issue
Later
Swept
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Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
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Administration
Discussion
Publicity
Safe
Secret
Bear
Show
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Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.
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Faith
Discussion
Good Faith
Parliamentary
Profession
Hardly
Least
Machiavelli
Stood
Test
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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that.
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History
Concentration
Gangsters
Hands
Mentality
Proven
Remember
Control
History Power Men
Few
Frequently
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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.
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Assurance
Authority
Every Man
Influence
Liberty
Opinion
Protected
Believes
Custom
Shall
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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.
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Democracy
Evil
Force
Fraud
Majority
Party
Tyranny
Carrying
Elections
Rather
Succeeds
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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.
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Authority
Deny
Superior
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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.
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Contrary
Development
Discussion
Ignorance
Simple
Attacked
Bear
Front
Qualities
Shaken
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By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.
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Action
Nations
Reign
Rescue
Reverse
Series
Succession
Verdict
Success Time World
Dead
Struggled
Shake
Shocks
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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.
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Conscience
Free Will
Grows
Guardian
Liberty
Safety
Sin
Condition
Domains
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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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Society
Destitute
Evil
Moral
Moral Evil
Poor
Poor Man
Property
Rich
Rich Man
Sacred
Consequences
Becomes
Misfortune
Teeming
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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.
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Constitution Of The United States
Democracy
Democratic
Powerful
Revolution
States
United States
English
Favor
Product
Reaction
Result
Traditions
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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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Absolute Power
Authority
Choices
Democracy
Depends
Fate
Legality
Principles
Sovereignty
Tradition
Absolute
Power Government Democracy
Opposite
Power Government People
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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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Gold
Sand
Streams
Grains
Instrument
Practical
Revealed
River
Truths
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