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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

Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Foundation Goodness One Liner
There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Act Boundary Feeling Imagination Influence Man Passion
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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Barter Found Government Human Virtue
The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.
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Grave Ourselves Treasure
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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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Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
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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Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.
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Love Man Power
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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Corruption Existence Liberty 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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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Greatness Law Nature Obedience Powerful
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Multitude Tyranny

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