A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEIt 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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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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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Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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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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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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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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Turn over a new leaf.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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