In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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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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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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