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• The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
  -- John E E Dalberg, Lord Acton (1834-1902), _The History of Freedom in Antiquity_...
• If this is a free country, why are we paying so much for it?
• A State which is incompetent to satisfy different races condemns itself
  a State which does not include them is destitute of the chief basis of self-government....
• There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
  That is the point at which the negation of Catholicism and the negation of Liberalism meet and keep high festival, and the end learns to justify the means....
• Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely. -- Lord Acto
• Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.
  Lord Acton (1834-1902) >>>-----Variations on the Theme-----&l...
• We are often most in the dark when we are the most certain, and most enligthened when we are the most confused.
  -- M. S. Peck...
• The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
  -- Eric Hoffe...