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democracy
Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.
beautiful funny-inspirational business
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.
spiritual reading writing
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
law liberty harmony
Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.
political mind habit
There is not a more perilous or immoral habit of mind than the sanctifying of success.
party democracies-have majority-rule
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.
execution socialism accepting
Socialism easily accepts despotism. It requires the strongest execution of power -- power sufficient to interfere with property.
country powerful generous-spirit
A generous spirit prefers that his country should be poor, and weak, and of no account, but free, rather than powerful, prosperous, and enslaved.
office political corrupt-power
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
freedom passion opportunity
The finest opportunity ever given to the world was thrown away because the passion of equality made vain the hope for freedom.
looks perceive
When you perceive a truth, look for the balancing truth.
religious book school
The barbarians, who possessed no books, no secular knowledge, no education, except in the schools of the clergy, and who had scarcely acquired the rudiments of religious instruction, turned with childlike attachment to men whose minds were stored with the knowledge of Scripture, of Cicero, of St. Augustine; and in the scanty world of their ideas, the Church was felt to be something infinitely vaster, stronger, holier than their newly founded States.
philosophy prejudice bundles
A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.
past doe
Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.