Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
EDMUND BURKEYour 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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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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A great empire and little minds go ill together.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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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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By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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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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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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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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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
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Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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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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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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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.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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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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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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