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1. The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
2. Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
3. A despotism may almost be defined as a tired democracy. As fatigue falls on a community, the citizens are less inclined for that eternal vigilance which has truly been called the price of liberty; and they prefer to arm only one single sentinel to watch the city while they sleep.
4. I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
5. "It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden."
6. "There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions."
7. "Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government."
8. "For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers."
9. "The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice."
10. "America is the only country ever founded on a creed."
