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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 men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Man Right
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance
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
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
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Greatness Man Struggle
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
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Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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Assumption Country Himself Man
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Act Fear Mindset Passion Power Reason
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Agreement Politics
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Absence Existence Liberty Moral
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Dangerous Enemy Hope Law People Power Willing
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE

Despair Work

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