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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

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Caution Wisdom
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Economics Economy Essential Expense True
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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Greatness Justice Policy
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Domination Greatness
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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Essence Force Law Stupidity
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Ability Man Ourselves Regular
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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Anxiety Errors Loud Popular Public Welfare
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity

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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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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