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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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Liberty is the prevention of control by others.

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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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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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