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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Director Politics Prudent Standard Virtue
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
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Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
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
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Cheap Defense Education Nation
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
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Credit Invention Knife
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
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
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Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty People
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate

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