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Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End...liberty Is The Only Object Which Benefits All Alike, And Provokes No Sincere Opposition...the Danger Is Not That A Particular Class Is Unfit To Govern. ~ Every Class Is Unfit To Govern ... Power Tends To Corrupt, And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men.
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Liberty Is Not A Means To A

Lord Acton
Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End...liberty Is The Only Object Which Benefits All Alike, And Provokes No Sincere Opposition...the Danger Is Not That A Particular Class Is Unfit To Govern. ~ Every Class Is Unfit To Govern ... Power Tends To Corrupt, And Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. Great Men Are Almost Always Bad Men.
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