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" Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. "

Edward Abbey
" No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. "

Edward Abbey
" The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. "

Bella Abzug
" The thing to remember is that that the future comes one day at a time. "

Dean Acheson
" A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer. "

Dean Acheson
" I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. "

Diane Ackerman
" Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. "

Diane Ackerman
" It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason. "

Lord Acton
" Learn as much by writing as by reading. "

Lord Acton
" The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority. "

Lord Acton
" The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. "

Lord Acton
" Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. "

Lord Acton
" Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. "

Lord Acton
" The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. "

Lord Acton
" Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. "

Abigail Adams
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