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Socialism means slavery.
Absolute power demoralizes.
The mills of God grind slowly.
Every class is unfit to govern.
Towns were the nursery of freedom.
Official truth is not actual truth.
Great men are almost always bad men.
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
Progress, the religion of those who have none.
Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.
Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't.
Ink was not invented to express our real feelings.
Judge talent at its best and character at its worst.
Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
There should be a law to the People besides its own will.
Government rules the present. Literature rules the future.
The will of the people cannot make just that which is unjust.
Feudalism made land the measure and the master of all things.
It is dangerous, at any time, to multiply sources of weakness.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.
The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.
Remember that one touch of ill-nature makes the whole world kin.
Truth is the only merit that gives dignity and worth to history.
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.
Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Self-preservation and self-denial: the basis of all political economy.
Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.
History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
The strong man with the dagger is followed by the weak man with the sponge.
A convinced man differs from a prejudiced man as an honest man from a liar.
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
Do not turn yourself from an end into a means-one does not justify the other.
In England Parliament is above the law. In America the law is above Congress.
Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.
To develop and perfect and arm conscience is the great achievement of history.
The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.
Moral precepts are constant through the ages and not obedient to circumstances.
History, to be above evasion or dispute, must stand on documents, not on opinions.
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men.
I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.
It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than people fit to govern others.