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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
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Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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Affection Animal Creation Social
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Digest Eat Reading Reflection
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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Build Prudence Rage Time
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
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Foundation Religion Society Stability True
You can never plan the future by the past.
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Future Past Planning Yourself
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
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth

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