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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.

Edmund Burke

That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
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Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.
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Destiny History Repeat
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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Age Future Hope Kind Live Man Present
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest

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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