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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.

Edmund Burke

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Government Injustice Oppression
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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Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
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Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Flatter Generosity Receive
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
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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Domination Greatness
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
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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Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Deep Goodness Tolerance
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Bad Law Worst
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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Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Achievement Force Ourselves Patience
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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Humanity Justice Law Myself Reason
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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Act Evil Failure Goodness Man

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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