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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

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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Equality Man Right
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man’s pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
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Color Determination Greatness Happiness Oppression Pretend
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
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
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Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
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
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Kind Learning Man
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
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Difficult Impossible Silence Talk
A coward’s courage is in his tongue.
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Courage Coward Tongue
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
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
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
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God Man Separate Unity
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Defend Errors Inheritance
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Dangerous Liberty True
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
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Hate Love Vice
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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Difference Fatal Religion

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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