Every device employed to bolster individual freedom must have as its chief purpose the impairment of the absoluteness of power. The indications are that such an impairment is brought about not by strengthening the individual and pitting him against the possessors of power, but by distributing and diversifying power and pitting one category or unit of power against the other. Where power is one, the defeated individual, however strong and resourceful, can have no refuge and no recourse.
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Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
Never befriend the oppressed unless you are prepared to take on the oppressor.
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
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Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.
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The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.
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If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free -- however free one can be on this planet.
