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" Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. "

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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. "

" Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. "

" Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. "

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" The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers. "

" History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. "

" 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. "

" Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought. "