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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Crisis Fire Hot Moral Reserve Time
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
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Encouragement People Provoke Rebel Revolution Time
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
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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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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Change Conservation Conversation State
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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Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
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
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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

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