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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

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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Council Evil Hands Irresponsibility Necessary Success Wash
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Abuse Dangerous Greatness Power
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Ancestor Past People
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Citizenship Democracy Exercise Majority Minority Oppression
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
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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Mistake Nation Power Small
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
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Abandonment Power Willing
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
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Equality Level
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Despair Work
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
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
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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Age Economics Forever Success
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Delusion Give Up Liberty People

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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