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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak.
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Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark.
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.
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When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
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He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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