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John Acton

"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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"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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"If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

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"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."

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"There shall be no end to the government of God."

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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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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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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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"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 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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"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 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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"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
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"The greatest men, you can quote for everything."
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