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John Acton

"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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"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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"The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century."

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"Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right."

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"Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."

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"The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research."

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"Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries."

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"Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy."

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"The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country."

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"A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter."

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"Every nation must have prayerful men and women to intercede for the country's well-being."

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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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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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"Liberty is the prevention of control by others."
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"History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong."
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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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"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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"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."
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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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"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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