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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Edmund Burke

A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
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Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
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
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
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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Infant Original Planning Thinking
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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
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
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
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

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