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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. It is not for the sake of a good public administration that it is required, but for security in the pursuit of the highest objects of civil society, and of private life. 

John Dalberg-​Acton, 1st Baron Acton, The History of Freedom in Antiquity (1877).

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