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As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

— R. H. Tawney The Acquisitive Society (1921)

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The foundation of democracy is the sense of spiritual independence which nerves the individual to stand alone against the powers of this world.

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Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

It is probable that democracy owes more to Nonconformity than to any other single movement.

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A right should not be absolute for the same reason that a power should not be absolute.

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The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

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