General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
EDMUND BURKEIt is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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